Oscar Westesson is a musician residing in the San Francisco bay area.
He primarily plays bass, but also sings and plays banjo, piano, guitar, fiddle, and occasionally drums.
Originally from Malmö, Sweden, he began playing bass as a teenager
under the tutelage of Fred Stone in Rochester, New York.
By the end of high school, he was out playing almost every night of the week.
His father once said "om du fortsätter spela så här mycket, till slut blir du en nota."
In retrospect, this probably happened somewhere around that time.
Moving to Berkeley in 2004, he finished a B.A. in Mathematics
in 2007 and a PhD in Computational Biology in 2012,
both at the University of California, Berkeley
(PhD was jointly appointed with University of California, San Francisco).
It is unclear whether Oscar's thesis has ever been read.
You could be the first! It's online here.
In addition to maths and music, Oscar has scaled numerous peaks in the high sierra,
lived at a Zen center, mentored undergraduate architecture students, and once bowled a 299.
He currently plays with numerous groups (see Projects) around the
Bay Area spanning several genres. When not playing music or enjoying the
natural world, he spends most of his time working as a research scientist at the
intersection of mathematics, computation and DNA biology at Guardant Health.
He primarily plays bass, but also sings and plays banjo, piano, guitar, fiddle, and occasionally drums.
Originally from Malmö, Sweden, he began playing bass as a teenager
under the tutelage of Fred Stone in Rochester, New York.
By the end of high school, he was out playing almost every night of the week.
His father once said "om du fortsätter spela så här mycket, till slut blir du en nota."
In retrospect, this probably happened somewhere around that time.
Moving to Berkeley in 2004, he finished a B.A. in Mathematics
in 2007 and a PhD in Computational Biology in 2012,
both at the University of California, Berkeley
(PhD was jointly appointed with University of California, San Francisco).
It is unclear whether Oscar's thesis has ever been read.
You could be the first! It's online here.
In addition to maths and music, Oscar has scaled numerous peaks in the high sierra,
lived at a Zen center, mentored undergraduate architecture students, and once bowled a 299.
He currently plays with numerous groups (see Projects) around the
Bay Area spanning several genres. When not playing music or enjoying the
natural world, he spends most of his time working as a research scientist at the
intersection of mathematics, computation and DNA biology at Guardant Health.