Education                      

Ph.D, Bioengineering , University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1999

MSE, BioMedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1994

BS, Mechanical Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1992

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ Sep 2001 - present

Joint Faculty Member of the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, Piscataway and Newark, NJ, Sep 2001-present

Consultant, Osiris Therapeutics, Inc., Baltimore, MD Sep 2001-March 2002
Senior Development Engineer, Osiris Therapeutics, Inc., Baltimore, MD 2000- September 2001
Development Engineer II/Project Leader, Osiris Therapeutics, Inc., Baltimore, MD May 1999-2000
Graduate Research Assistant, Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1994-1999
Teaching Assistant, Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1994-1995
Graduate Research Assistant, Bioengineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 1992-1994 ·
Process Engineering, Merck & Company, Sterile Operations, West Point, PA Summer 1993
Mechanical Engineer, Merck & Company, Sterile Operations, West Point, PA Summer 1992
Summer Intern, Summer Undergraduate Program for Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Summer 1991
Summer Intern - Mechanical Engineer, G. E. Astro Space, Freehold, NJ Summer 1990

Professional Activities/Organizations

Member - Orthopaedic Research Society, 2000 - present
Member - Society for Biomaterials, 1996 - present
Reviewer for Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting, 2002, 2003
Moderator for Session on Tissue Engineering, 2002, 2003
Member - American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1990 - present
Member - National Society of Black Engineers, 1990 - present
Reviewer for the American Society of Artificial Internal Organs Journal (ASAIO J)
Reviewer for Biomaterials

Major Teaching Experience

Biomaterials and Biocompatibility, Undergraduate level. Developed course and Instructor (Spring 2002- present)
Principles of Tissue Engineering, Graduate Level. Developed course and Instructor (Fall 2002-present)