Apparently he is the son of a bioengineering professor and was able to work in his father's nanotechnology lab while growing up. He also started taking college

Apparently he is the son of a bioengineering professor and was able to work in his father's nanotechnology lab while growing up. He also started taking college courses at a local university when he was 12 (UT Arlington) before going to UT Austin. http://www.uta.edu/utamagazine/archive-issues/2010-13/2012/12/cultivating-genius/index.html http://www.uta.edu/utamagazine/archive-issues/2010-13/2012/1...