Dustin Reishus received his PhD on May 15 from the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Dustin's dissertation was "On the Mathematics of Self-Assembly."

He is a 2000 Moffat County High School graduate. His parents are Dr. Allan Reishus, of Craig, and Donna Reishus, of Corvallis, Ore.