Dr. Brian Mazzeo was born and raised in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He saw his first snowfall as a freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then spent two years in Santa Cruz, Bolivia as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When he returned to MIT, his undergraduate research with Professor Akintunde Akinwande focused on the modelling of amorphous silicon thin-film transistors, and he interned as an electrotextile researcher at Milliken Research Corporation during the summers. He graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering in 2005.

After his graduation, he from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Cambridge, England to continue his education at the University of Cambridge on a Marshall Scholarship. He worked with Andrew Flewitt on thin-film transistor device modeling before focusing on real-time electrical measurements of biological species in solution, the area of research on which he wrote his dissertation. In 2008, he received his PhD.

Immediately following, he joined the faculty at Brigham Young University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he climbed the ranks from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor to, as of September 2019, Professor. His current research focuses on lithium-ion battery films and reinforced concrete.

In 2019, Dr. Mazzeo co-directed a successful project to modify Mongolian gers to eliminate household pollution and increase the air quality in Mongolia’s capital city of Ulaanbataar, and he and his team received grateful, official recognition from the Monoglian Prime Minister. He currently holds thirteen U.S. patents.

Awards and Honors

• ASNT Fellowship Award (2017)
• SHPE Young Investigator Award (2017)
• Marshall Scholarship (2005)
• Semi-Finalist, MIT Autonomous Robot Design Competition (2003)