Mehmet R. Dokmeci received B.S. (with distinction) and M.S. degrees from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, all in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Dokmeci is currently an Instructor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School, a position he has held since June 2011. He is also the co-director of the Biomaterials Innovation Research Center (BIRC) at BWH. Previously, he was on the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University. Before joining academia, he worked for 4 years at Corning-Intellisense Corporation, Wilmington, MA, developing MEMS-based products for the telecommunications and life science industries. He has extensively published in refereed journals and conferences in the areas of MEMS, BioMEMS, micro- and nanotechnology, and sensors. He is the author of 87 technical journal articles and 110 conference publications, has one edited book, four invited book chapters, and four patents. Dr. Dokmeci is also a long term member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Materials Research Society (MRS), American Chemical Society (ACS), and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). His group has received several awards for their research, including the Best Poster Award from the MRS Fall Meeting in 2007 and the Best Poster Award from the 8th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology in 2008, and the Best Poster Award at the IEEE BioCAS conference in 2014.