Dr. David A Stout is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at California State University, Long Beach. He received his B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Chemistry from California State University, Long Beach in 2010, and a Ph.D. from Brown University in Biomedical Engineering in 2014. While at Brown, Dr. Stout was a member of the Nanomedicine Laboratories focusing on the development of cardiovascular nanobiomaterials under the direction of Dr. Thomas J. Webster. Under the direction of Dr. Christian Franck, Dr. Stout then developed a system to investigate the migration forces of human neutrophils in a 3D environment in the Cell Mechanics Laboratory.