Dan Hussain is an inventor, entrepreneur and patent agent who comes from a diverse, multicultural background which has inspired his creativity. Dan was born in Moscow, Russia to Svetlana Hussain, of native Russian decent, and Dr. Anwar Hussain, whose family originated in Bangladesh.
As a high school student at Richland Senior High School in Johnstown, Dan won the Siemens Westinghouse National Science Award for engineering excellence for the application of biological evolutionary theories in order to find efficient hashing functions for unstructured data sets.
Dan received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering from MIT in 2004. Later in 2009, he moved on to attain his M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, and has since continued towards his Ph.D. there.