Boris Khusid, PhD, is a professor in the mechanical engineering department at New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he also serves as director of the Electro-Hydrodynamics Laboratory and as co-director of the W.M. Keck Laboratory. His current research interests include the fundamentals of the micro- and nano-scale behavior of suspensions subject to a high-gradient strong ac electric field and a shear flow; development of electro-microfluidics for the control and manipulation of fine particles, cells, and micro-organisms; and the fundamentals of micro-scale electro-hydrodynamics to the level where it will become useful in the design and operation of novel sensors for applications ranging from bioagent detection to the healthcare industry.

Recent publications include: "Hysteresis, force oscillations, and nonequilibrium effects in the adhesion of spherical nanoparticles to atomistically smooth surfaces," Physical Review Letters, 95, 016102-1-4 (2005); "Wetting and particle adsorption in nanoflows," Physics of Fluids, 17(1), 017102-1-18 (2005); and "Effects of clinorotation and positive dielectrophoresis on suspensions of heavy particles," Physics of Fluids, 16(5), 1826-1829 (2004).

Khusid received his PhD from the The Heat and Mass Transfer Institute (Minsk, USSR) in 1975 and his MS from the Byelorussian State University (Minsk, USSR) in 1972.