Dr. Huff is the Founder and Director of the MEMS and Nanotechnology Exchange Program at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) in Reston, Virginia.  Prior to joining CNRI in 1998, Dr. Huff was on the faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, where his research focused on the development of MEMS microfluidic components for healthcare and defense applications, including a novel MEMS-based insulin pump that received national acclaim.  

As a leader in MEMS research and development for over twenty years, Dr. Huff is widely published in the field of micromechanical engineering and fabrication and holds several patents for MEMS devices with others pending. 

Dr. Huff received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with Highest Honors and subsequently worked for several years at the Missile Systems Division of Raytheon Corporation where he designed front-end signal acquisition systems for the Patriot Missile Platform.  He was awarded his M.S.in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and simultaneously his M.S. in Material Science and Engineering with a specialization in Electronic Materials from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Dr. Huff received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.  His thesis, supported by the Robert Bosch Company, involved the design and fabrication of an electrostatically actuated pressure-balanced microvalve, and pioneered the now commonly used fabrication technique of silicon wafer bonding.