Sameer Shah is an Assistant Professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering and a faculty member of the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Sameer completed his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in Bioengineering in 2002 under the mentorship of Richard Lieber, for his research on biomechanical roles of skeletal muscle intermediate filaments. Sameer stayed on at UCSD for his post-doctoral training with Larry Goldstein, in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, researching mechanisms of neuronal degeneration and modeling axonal transport.