I’m currently an Instructor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai and Head of Engineering for Mount Sinai BioDesign, a medical device incubator and prototyping center housed within the Mount Sinai Health System. I also completed my PhD at Mount Sinai in the labs of Drs. Kevin Costa and Junqian Xu, with a focus on biomechanics and medical device development. I have also been involved for many years in the leadership of GRO-Biotech, an inter-institutional, student-lead consortium focused on expanding career development opportunities for graduate students in and around the life sciences. More recently, I helped launch the NYC regional chapter of Nucleate, a student-lead bio-entrepreneurship program focused on helping first-time scientific founders spin their technology out of academia. Previously, I worked at 3D printing industry leader 3D Systems on technical development in the consumer marketing department and as a liaison with engineering project management teams. Prior to 3D Systems, I had a brief stint in the technology industry at experiential marketing firm Affinitive.

I received my bachelors in Biomedical Engineering from Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, where I remain active in the Zahn Innovation Center, an on-campus tech startup incubator.

I’ve also been involved in several startup ventures in the hardware and biotech spaces. Several years ago, I took my startup Proto-Sauce, through NYCEDC’s Futureworks Incubator, with the goal of developing new, advanced materials for resin-based 3D printing. More recently, I served as the founding CTO of Biosapien, using advanced manufacturing to create new devices for the treatment of cancer. Beyond this direct startup work, I have also continued to participate as a mentor in various programs focused on the New York City startup community.

Last, but not least, I’m the writer and publisher of Magnitude and Direction (and it’s long-form companion Moment of Inertia), a bi-weekly email newsletter that focuses on some of my primary areas of interest, including bioengineering, data science, history, and cartography, as well as various events, opportunities, and goings-on in NYC revolving around the city’s growing technology and startup communities.