Craig Forest

Craig Forest is an Assistant Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. From 2007-08 he was a research fellow in Genetics at Harvard Medical School, working with Prof. George Church. He obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in June 2007 at the BioInstrumentation Laboratory, led by Prof. Ian Hunter. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 from Georgia Tech and an MS in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 from MIT. He was recently a finalist on the ABC reality TV show "American Inventor" and was a Sandia National Laboratories MEMS Fellow. His research interests include genetic applications of MEMS, optics, and precision machine design.