Michael C.K. Khoo received his BSc(Eng) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, in 1976, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Harvard University in 1977 and 1981, respectively. Before joining the faculty at USC in 1983, Dr. Khoo worked as a research engineer on a collaborative project involving the Veterans Administration Medical Center (West Roxbury), Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Khoo has been the recipient of a Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health and a Career Investigator Award from the American Lung Association. He is principal investigator of one of the Core Projects in the Biomedical Simulations Resource, a national center funded by the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, dedicated to advancing the state of the art in biomedical modeling and computer simulation. He is also the co-principal investigator of an NIH training grant in Biomedical Imaging Informatics, and co-Director of Education and Outreach for the NSF-funded Engineering Research Center on Biomimetic Microelectronic Systems. Dr. Khoo is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). He was BME Department Chair 2003-2010.