William (Bill) Dunbar co-founded Ontera (then called Two Pore Guys), and currently serves as CTO to lead data analysis and IP creation. Prior to Ontera, Bill was an engineering professor for 12 years at University of California Santa Cruz, publishing over 50 peer-reviewed papers and earning the National Science Foundation's prestigious CAREER award. Bill is co-inventor on 10 issued patents on diverse topics, from self-driving cars (owned by Toyota) to nanopore sequencing (licensed by Oxford Nanopore Technologies). Bill invented the dual nanopore device at UC Santa Cruz in 2011, and co-founded Ontera to license and commercialize that IP for applications that include structural variation detection, genome mapping and chemistry-free polynucleotide sequencing. Bill received a Ph.D. in control and dynamical systems theory from California Institute of Technology (Caltech).