Hossein Sojoudi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Toledo (UT). Prior to UT, he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a joint appointment in Chemical Engineering Department. He obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received several awards including Excellence in Research and Excellence in Supervision of Undergraduate Research Awards from UToledo COE, Materials Research Society Best Poster Presentation Award, and several other awards from Georgia Tech & MIT. Dr. Sojoudi has been invited as keynote speaker to more than 25 different universities and international conferences. His work has received considerable attention from scientific media such as MIT News and Science News as well as popular media such as Forbes.