Leon Peshkin is a faculty member at Systems Biology Department of the Harvard Medical School, also affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory. Peshkin holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Brown University and an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Leon's current research interests include embryology, evolution and aging. Leon's research on aging and personal story was covered in a recent Boston Globe article His personal genome is used as a human genomic standard by the US National Institute of Standards within Genome in a Bottle program as described in a Genome magazine article Leon's research on applications of Artificial Intelligence to biology of aging has been highlighted in an interview with the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation and Longevity Technology.