Muhammad H. Zaman is Director of Laboratory of Engineering Education and Development, Innovative Engineering Education Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. Prof. Zaman also holds appointments in the Department of Medicine and the Department of International Health at Boston University School of Medicine. Prof. Zaman got his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Chicago in 2003 where he was a Burroughs-Wellcome Graduate Fellow in Interdisciplinary Sciences. After his Ph.D. he was a Herman and Margaret Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT from 2003-2006. He was Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at UT Austin from 2006-2009 and moved to BU in Fall 2009. His lab focuses on developing new experimental and computational technologies for high value healthcare problems in both the developing and developed world.
Prof. Zaman is also actively involved in bringing high quality engineering education in the developing countries and improving local technical capacity. He is currently involved in setting up biomedical engineering programs in various developing countries including Ethiopia, Zambia, Kenya and Papua New Guinea. He is a member of the technical committee of the UN Economic Council on Africa (UNECA) and co-Director of the UNECA biomedical initiative in Africa.

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