03/04 Welcome two new postdocs Dr. Tinyi (Leo) Liu and Dr. Tuhin Santra to join our lab
02/13 Yu-Chun's paper "Fabrication of 3D High Aspect Ratio PDMS Microfluidic Networks with A Hybrid Stamp" is accepted by Lab on a Chip - Feb 13 2015
01/31 Prof. Chiou receives UCLA MAE Teaching Award
2014
09/22 Welcome new PhD students: Xiongfeng Zhu, Chen-Wei Yang.
09/18 Prof. Chiou gives an invited talk in the Select Biosciences Exosomes/Single Cell Analysis Conferences, San Diego
08/01 Welcome new visiting scholar Prof. Hyuk-Kee Sung
07/25 Prof. Chiou gives an invited talk in National Taiwan University, Taiwan, July 25 2014. (Title: Ultrahigh Speed Optofluidics for Single Cell Manipulation and Analysis)
07/23 Prof. Chiou gives an invited talk in National Hsinhua University, Taiwan, July 23 2014. (Title: Ultrahigh Speed Optofluidics for Single Cell Manipulation and Analysis)
03/01 Welcome new visiting scholar Dr. Elaine Ming-Yu Lin
02/27 Prof. Chiou gives an invited talk in The International Workshop on the Fabrication and Application of Microstructured Optical Devices, Yokohama, Japan
02/15 Yue Chen's work on Inertia 3D PLACS won the best poster competition in UCLA Tech Forum
2013
Yue Chen's paper titled "3D pulsed laser-triggered high-speed microfluidic fluorescence-activated cell sorter" is selected as the front cover paper of Analyst, Dec 2013
Kuo-Wei Huang joins Intel, Dec 1 2013.
Kuo-Wei Huang's paper titled "Optoelectronic tweezers integrated with lensfree holographic microscopy for wide-field interactive cell and particle manipulation on a chip" is selected as the front cover of Lab on a Chip (2013)
Sung Yong Park joins National University of Singapore as an assistant professor, April 2013
2012
Kuo-Wei Huang won the BEST PAPER AWARD in the IEEE Nanomedicine 2012 conference
Professor Chiou give an invited talk on High Throughput Pulse Laser Activated Cell Sorter (PLACS) in IEEE Nanomedicine 2012 conference in Thailand, Oct 2012
Yu-Jui Fan received the travel grant from Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS) to attend uTAS 2012
Professor Chiou give an invited talk on Photothermal nanoblade for single cell surgery and cargo delivery in SPIE conference in San Diego, Aug 2012
Wen Shi receives the John Bent Merit Scholarship, July 2012
Pulse Laser Activated Cell Sorter (PLACS) highlighted in Nature Photonics, May 2012
Master student George Chen received outstanding master student award from UCLA MAE department, May 2012
2011
Photothermal nanoblade selected as JALA TOP TEN Innovation 2011, September 2011
Photothermal nanoblade on Analytical Chemistry highlight in Chemical & Engineering News, March 2011
Pulse Laser Droplet generation on Demand (PLDG) paper is selected as a HOT article on Lab on Chip, Jan 2011
2008
Floating Electrode Optoelectronic Tweezers highlight in Nature Photonics
Prof. Chiou won NSF CAREER AWARD
2007
Congratulation to Karan Mehta! He has been awarded a College of Letters and Science Undergraduate Research Fellows Program (URFP) stipend
Professor Chiou is invited to attend the 2007 National Academy of Engineering's Frontier of Engineering symposium
2006
Optoelectronic Tweezers (OET) is selected by R&D Magazine and Micro/Nano Newsletter as representative of the best 25 micro- and nanotechnologies of 2006