He is an interdisciplinary biomedical scientist and engineer with research interest in endothelial mechanobiology, vascular inflammation, and nanomedicine. Prior to joining UCR, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Don Ingber’s lab in the Vascular Biology Program at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from SUNY Stony Brook in 2006, where he worked in the laboratories of Richard Clark and Miriam Rafailovich on the development of polymeric hydrogels for wound repair. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India in 2001. Degrees