Exciting event! – our end-of-summer-quarter undergraduate research symposium at the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics (Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics). A big thank you to everyone for a productive, fun summer of collaborative work in the lab! Congratulations to Glingna Wang Glingna,

Very pleased to announce that Dr. Juyeol Bae, a postdoctoral fellow in the group, is moving to a faculty position in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Chonnam National University. Juyeol joined us with fellowship funding from the National Research Foundation of Korea about

We were delighted to host Prof. Steve Chou (Princeton University) at our Querrey-Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics (Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics)!   Steve, famous for his work on nanoimprint lithography, gave a presentation on his most recent research in “…intriguing phenomena manifested in

Very happy for Dr. Da Som Yang, a postdoctoral fellow in the group, on her new faculty position in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Chung-Ang University in Korea!  Da Som has been a wonderful member of our team for several years, supported partly by an NRF and a GVIC

Had a wonderful time at the awards symposium for Prof. Joseph (Joe) Wang Joe Wang, the recipient of this year’s American Chemical Society Award in Analytical Chemistry.  I’ve known Joe for more than a decade through our interests in skin-integrated health monitoring technologies. We’ve

Congratulations to Dr. Kyeongha Kwon on her promotion to Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST KAIST Engineering!!  Kyeongha was a spectacularly successful postdoctoral fellow with us a few years ago – one of a total of 30 women from our group who are now

Congratulations X 2!! – Dr. Xueju Wang Xueju (Sophie) Wang and Dr. Yi Zhang Yi Zhang, a spousal pair of former postdoctoral fellows in the group Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, have both just now been promoted from Assistant to tenured Associate Professors in the Department of Materials Science and

Big thanks to Prof. Coskun Kocabas coskunkocabas (The University of Manchester) and Prof. Askin Kocabas Askin Kocabas (Koç Üniversitesi) for the invitation to deliver a plenary talk at the NanoTR-18 conference at Koc University, near Istanbul in Turkey.  Coskun and Askin are not only

Very grateful to Prof. Metin Sitti Metin Sitti for hosting my visit to Koc University, where he became president last year, departing his position a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Intelligent Systems at Stuttgart – becoming a world leader in micro and

Thanks a million times to Prof. Ying-Chih Lai and Prof. Shu-Ping Lin, both of National Chung Hsing University, for serving as such wonderful, incredible hosts during my trip to Taiwan!! – and specifically for your invitation to deliver a plenary talk at the International

Pleased to announce our latest paper – a cover feature article in Science Translational Medicine Science Translational Medicine -- on microfluidic ‘lab on the skin’ devices for capture and quantitative analysis of biomarkers in eccrine sweat.  The system that we introduced here takes the form of

Super happy for Prof. Limei Tian on her promotion from Assistant Professor to tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU) TAMU BMEN!!  Limei was a part of our group back at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

Check out our paper on soft, skin-interfaced microfluidic devices for colorimetric evaluation of the concentration of ketones in eccrine sweat, published this week in Lab on a Chip Lab on a Chip as an Advanced Article.  The key findings are that simple, commercial assays can be

What was it like to work at Bell Labs Bell Labs? A couple of months ago, I was deeply honored to receive an invitation to contribute a writeup on my experiences at Bell Laboratories, as part of a broader effort led by Arthur Ramirez, David Bishop and Cherry Murray to capture the

Happy to report the publication today of our latest paper in Science Advances – three-dimensional (3D) mesoscale interfaces to cardiac organoids derived from human stem cells, with applications that range from drug testing and to disease modeling. These biological systems avoid