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Optofluidics and P[tomechanics Platforms for Biomedical Applications

Light is a special form of energy. Its unique physical properties give engineers and scientists the ability to create versatile enabling functional devices and instruments for biomedical applications. This presentation will provide a brief overview of several optofluidics and optomechanics platforms developed in our group in UCLA for applications ranging from cell manipulation, cell sorting, intracellular delivery, and sensing of biomechanical properties of a cell or a sheet of interconnected tissue. In this presentation, I will also share our recent results on developing a field programmable acoustic array (FPAA) platform that can provide deep subwavelength modulation of acoustic fields for patterning microparticles and biological cells. I will also present a type of flexible, multifunctional neural probe whose stiffness can be tuned by 5 orders of magnitude. This probe has the ability to penetrate cm deep into soft tissue such as the brain and provides chemical sensing and agent delivery functions.

Biography:

Dr. Pei-Yu Chiou received his Ph.D. degree in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department from the University of California at Berkeley in 2005. He received his M.S. degree in the Electrical Engineering Department from UCLA and B.S. degree in the Mechanical Engineering Department from National Taiwan University in 1998. He was an assistant professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) between 2006~2011, associate professor between 2011~2015, and full professor since then. He is also a full professor in the Bioengineering Department in UCLA. His research interests focus on optofluidics, biophotonics, and flexible electronic and mechanical devices. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2008, UCLA MAE Teaching Award in 2014. He was elected to American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) fellow in 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) fellow in 2017, and IEEE Fellow in 2018.

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