2003-2005 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Biomedical Engineering
1993-2003 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
M.D. / Ph.D. - Department of Biomedical Engineering
1989–1993 Vanderbilt University
B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering) - Triple Major: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics
McKnight Scholar - McKnight Endowment for Neuroscience (2007).
Sloan Research Fellow - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2007).
Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Award in Bioengineering (2006).
David Israel Macht Research Prize for most outstanding gruaduate student basic science research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2000).
Society for the Neural Control of Movement - Student Travel Fellowship (2000).
National Institues of Health Minority Predoctoral Fellowship (1993-2001).
Thomas G. Arnold Prize for best senior undergraduate research project in Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University (1993).
National Society of Black Engineers Southeast Region Member of the Year (1992).
Vanderbilt University Chancellor’s Scholarship (1989-93).