Cynthia Bir

Cynthia Bir (or "Cindy Bir" ) is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Wayne State University

Biography Bir received a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Wayne State University in 2000. She then was on the faculty of Wayne State, rising to the rank of Professor Biomedical Engineering, before going to the Keck School of Medicine in 2013. In 2020, she return to Wayne State as Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department, in Detroit, MI.

Professional work She has been a leading engineer of National Geographic's Fight Science, and is the leading engineer and a producer of its spinoff, ESPN's Sport Science. She has contributed to Dancing with the Stars, was included in the 2013 Amsterdam World Science Festival,

Bir's specialty is the prevention of injury from nonlethal forces,