Ali Besharatian was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1984. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (EE) from Sharif University of Technology (SUT) in 2007, with a major in Electronics. During his undergraduate carrier, he studied additional courses on Optoelectronics, Photonics and Photonic Crystals, on which he did his bachelors thesis. He has also been involved as an intern in the renovation and expansion of the micro-technology and nano-electronics laboratory at Sharif University of Technology (2006-07), where he participated in installation and characterization of new fabrication facilities. Right after graduation, he came to the U.S. and entered the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to pursue his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, focusing on MEMS. He has been affiliated with Solid State Electronics Laboratory (SSEL) of the EECS department and the Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems (WIMS ERC) since April 2008. His research topic is "High Pressure and High Flow Gas Micro Pumps," which can be applied to the next generations of micro gas chromatography (micro-GC) systems and environmental sensors. He is also interested in Micro Vacuum Pumps, Micro Vacuum Packaging of Electronics, Ultra Low Power Microsystems, and Energy Scavenging for MEMS. He expects to receive his Ph.D. in September 2012.