Marshall Cox earned his M.S. in materials science and engineering from Cornell University in May 2004 and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 2013. He is an alumnus of InSITE, an organization that helps early-stage startups refine their venture capital pitch presentations, and of the Startup Leadership Program (SLP), where he was a fellow in 2011-12 and a Program Leader in 2012-13. Marshall holds six U.S. patents and has published eight peer-reviewed papers in semiconductor devices, processing and inorganic synthetic chemistry.