Jorge Cham received his Bachelor"s degree from Georgia Technical in 1997, and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in mechanical engineering from Stanford. He subsequently worked at Caltech as an instructor and as a researcher on neural prosthetics.
He has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in four published book collections. He was featured on National Public Radio on December 20, 2010. In 2005, Cham began an invited speaking tour of over 80 major universities delivering his talk titled "The Power of Procrastination".
In this lecture, Cham talks about his experiences creating the comic strip and examines the sources of graduate students" anxieties.
He also explores the guilt and the myths associated with procrastination and argues that in many cases it is actually a good thing.
