Sattar Taheri-Araghi holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Waterloo in Canada and completed postdoctoral training in quantitative biology at Harvard and UC San Diego. Sattar is currently a professor at California State University, Northridge, where he runs an NIH-funded research lab. In his academic lab, he develops experimental and mathematical tools to study antibiotics. With his teammate, Sanaz Mohammadi, he is starting a company to design and develop a medical device for rapid and precise detection of infection.