He was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland in the group of Prof. Philippe Renaud. He obtained his doctoral degree in 2010 from the University of California, Irvine under the guidance of Prof. Marc Madou. His expertise lies at the interface between micro/nanofabrication, carbonaceous materials, electrokinetics and microfluidics. He is considered a pioneer of carbon-electrode Dielectrophoresis, a technology for particle manipulation. He has participated in different interdisciplinary projects conducting research in Spain, India, Mexico and South Korea. His Multiscale Manufacturing Laboratory www.multiscalemanufacturing.net currently focuses on Healthcare Diagnostics and Advanced Manufacturing.