Dr. Fatima A. Merchant received a B.E. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India, in 1989 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1992 and 1995, respectively. Then, she served as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General, Boston, MA, USA, until 1997. She is currently a Professor and the Department Chair at the Department of Engineering Technology, University of Houston. She directs research at the Computational Biology and Medicine Laboratory. Her current research focuses on multidimensional imaging, image analysis, and tissue engineering.