420 Westwood Plaza, Eng. IV, 37-138

Los Angeles, CA90095-1597

Tel: 1-310-825-8620

Email: peiyu@g.ucla.edu

2006-2011

Assistant Professor

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department

University of California at Los Angeles

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

2006 POSTDOC Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA

2005 PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA

2004 MS Electrical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA

1998 BS Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

HONOR AND AWARD

1. Fellow, IEEE, 2019
2. Fellow, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017
3. Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2016
4. JALA TEN, 10 Breakthrough Technologies of The Year, 2016. Topic: High Throughput Photothermal BLAST platform for Large Cargo Delivery
5. Best paper award, Optofluidics 2015, Title: Gold Nanoparticle Embedded PDMS Micropillar Array for Large Area Cell Force Sensing
6. UCLA MAE Teaching Award 2014
7. Best poster award, UCLA Tech Forum, Title: Pulsed Laser Activated Cell Sorting with Three Dimensional Sheathless Inertial Focusing, 2014
8. Best Paper Award, IEEE Nanomed 2012, Title: Optoelectronic Tweezers Integrated with Lensfree Holographic Microscopy for Large-area Cell Detection and Manipulation
9. JALA TEN, 10 Breakthrough Technologies of The Year, 2011. Topic: Photothermal Nanoblade
10. NSF CAREER Award, 2008
11. Invited to attend the 2007 National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering symposium, 2007
12. Invention of “Optoelectronic Tweezers” is selected by R&D Magazine and MICRO/NANO Newsletter as representative of the best 25 micro- and nanotechnology of 2006
13. Best Presentation in Berkeley BSAC IAB meeting in spring 2005
14. Best Poster Award in Berkeley BSAC IAB meeting in spring 2005
15. Finalist in National Collegiate Invention Competition, Akron, Ohio, 2004
16. UC GREAT Fellowship (Graduate Research and Education in Adaptive bio-Technology Training Program), 2004
17. IBM Student Fellow in the 8th National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering Meeting, 2002
18. Second Place in International Micro Robot Maze Contest, Nagoya, Japan, 1998
19. President’s Award, National Taiwan University, 1997

SELECTED PUBLICATION

1. Chiou, P. Y., Moon, H., Toshiyoshi, H., Kim, C. J., Wu, M. C. “Light actuation of liquid by Optoelectrowetting,” Sensors & Actuators A-Physical, vol. 104, pp. 222-228, 2003.
2. Chiou, P. Y., Ohta, A. T., Wu, M. C.,” Massively parallel manipulation of single cells and microparticles using optical images," Nature, vol. 436, pp. 370-372, 2005.
3. Jamshidi, A., Pauzauskie, P. J., Schuck, P. J., Ohta, A. T., Chiou, P. Y., Chou, J., Yang, P., and Wu, M. C. “Dynamic manipulation and separation of individual semiconducting and metallic nanowires,” Nature Photonics, vol. 2, pp. 86-89, 2008.
4. Park, S., Teitell, M. A., Chiou, P. Y., “Single-sided continuous optoelectrowetting (SCOEW) for droplet manipulation with light patterns,” Lab on a Chip, Vol 10, pp. 1655, 2010.
5. Wu, T.-H., Teslaa, T., Kalim, S., French, C. T., Maghadam, S., Wall, R., Miller, J. F., Witte, O. N., Teitell, M., and Chiou, P. Y., “Photothermal nanoblade for large cargo delivery into live mammalian cells,” Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 83, pp 1321–1327, 2011.
6. Wu, T-H., Chen, Y., Park, S., Hong, J., Teslaa, T., Zhong, J. F., Di Carlo, D., Teitell, M. A., Chiou, P. Y., “Pulsed laser triggered high speed microfluidic fluorescence activated cell sorter,” Lab on a Chip, 12, pp 1378-1383 2012.
7. Huang, K.-W., Su, T.-W., Ozcan, A., Chiou, P. Y., “Optoelectronic tweezers integrated with lensfree holographic microscopy for wide-field interactive cell and particle manipulation on a chip,” Lab on a Chip, 13, 2278-2284, 2013.
8. Chen, Y., Chung, A. J., Wu, T.-H., Teitell, M. A., Di Carlo, D., Chiou, P. Y., “Pulsed Laser Activated Cell Sorting with Three Dimensional Sheathless Inertial Focusing,” Small, 10, pp 1746–1751, 2014.
9. Wu, Y.-C., Wu, T.-H., Clemens, D. L., Lee, B.-Y., Wen, X., Horwitz, M. A., Teitell, M. A., Chiou, P. Y., "Massively parallel large cargo delivery into mammalian cells with light pulses," Nature Methods, 12, 439-444, 2015.
10. Wu, T.-H., Sagullo, E., Case, D., Zheng, X., Li, Y., Hong, J., TeSlaa, T., Patananan, A., McCaffery, J. M., Ziazi, K., Braas, D., Koehler, C., Graeber, T., Chiou, P. Y., Teitell, M. A., Mitochondrial Transfer by Photothermal Nanoblade Restores Metabolite Profile in Mammalian Cells, Cell Metabolism, 23, 921-929, 2016.

US PATENTS

1. Yajia Yang, Pei Yu Chiou, Yufei Mao, Chi On Chu, Self-locking optoelectronic tweezers and its fabrication, US Patent Application No. US15/501,428, Filed Feb 2, 2017.
2. T. H. Wu, P. Y. Chiou, M.A. Teitell, Efficient delivery of large cargos into cells on a porous substrate, US Patent Application No. US 15/129,387, filed September 26, 2016.
3. Chiou, P. Y., et al, “"METHODS FOR EFFICIENT INTRACELLULAR DELIVERY USING ANISOTROPIC MAGNETIC PARTICLES", US Patent Application No. US 15/387,230, Filed December 21, 2016.
4. Chiou, P. Y., Huang, K.-W., Khandros, I. Y., Wu, M. C., “ Microfluidic devices with flexible optically transparent electrodes,” US Patent No. US 9227200, issued Jan 5, 2016.
5. Chiou, P. Y., Wu, Y.-C., Wu, T.-H., Teitell, M. A. “ High-throughput cargo delivery into live cells using photothermal platforms,” US Patent Application No. US 14/771,478, Aug 28, 2015.
6. Chioiu, P. Y., Kung, Y.-C., Huang, K.-W., Fan, Y.-J., “ Continuous whole-chip 3-dimensional DEP cell sorter and related fabrication method,” US Patent Application No. US 14/388,212, September 25, 2014.
7. Chiou, P. Y., Kung, Y.-C., Wu, Chen, Y., Teitell, T. H.,” High-speed on demand microfluidic droplet generation and manipulation,” US Patent Application No. US 61/798,516, March 12 2013.
8. Chiou, P. Y., Wu, T. H., Park, S, Teitell, M. A., High speed on demand droplet generation and single cell encapsulation driven by induced cavitation, US Patent Application No. US 13/370196, Feb 9th, 2012
9. Chiou, P. Y., Park, S., Single sided continuous optoelectrowetting device (SCOEW) for droplet manipulation with light patterns, US Patent Application No. 13/194966, Feb 2, 2012.
10. Chiou, P. Y., Wu, T. H., Teitell, M. A. Pulsed laser triggered high speed microfluidic switch and applications in fluorescent activated cell sorting, US Patent Application No. 12/852320, 2011
11. Wu, T. H., Kalim, S., Teitell, M. A., Chiou, P. Y., A single-cell surgery tool based on photothermal effects of metal nanoparticles, US Patent Application No. 12/667,594, 2010.
12. Ohta, A. T., Chiou, P. Y., Jamshidi, A., Hsu, H.-Y., Wu, M. C., Neala, S. L., Single-sided lateral electric field optoelectronic tweezers and phototransistor bases optoelectronic tweezers, US Patent No. 7956339, issued Jun 7th, 2011.
13. Chiou, P. Y., Ohta, A. T., Wu, M. C., Optoelectronic Tweezers for Microparticle and Cell Manipulation, US Patent No. 7612355, issued Nov 3, 2009
14. Chiou, P. Y., Wu, M. C. Wu, Systems and methods for optical actuation of microfluidics based on OPTO-electrowetting, US Patent No. 7727771, issued June 1, 2010