I grew up in southwestern Ontario, in the village of St. Clair Beach, which is now part of the town of Tecumseh. After completing high school at St. Anne High School, I pursued a BASc degree in electrical engineering at the University of Waterloo. This is also where I met my wife, Amy, who was in my class. We received our degrees in May of 2003. Subsequently, I continued studying electrical engineering at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Dr. Manoj Sachdev focusing on VLSI in general, and specifically in TCAMs - a specialized semiconductor memory. During this time, Amy completed an MBA degree at Wilfred Laurier University and began a career at iAnywhere, a Sybase subsidiary. Having received a MASc degree in May of 2005, I began worked at DALSA in Waterloo, who makes high-performance CCD cameras for industrial, commercial, and space applications. I then joined Dr. Richard Cobbold and Dr. Wayne Johnston at the University of Toronto's Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering in September of 2005 as a PhD Student. I am researching phononic metamaterials: A class of engineered materials that exhibit surprising and unusual effects, such as a negative index of refraction and anomalous Doppler effects.

My hobbies include playing the piano, weight-lifting, tennis, biking, golf, and automotive interests. Amy and I are also Wilton certified cake decorators and make custom cakes as a side business (www.wrightcakes.ca).