My research asks: How can quantitative soft-matter physics and transport phenomena be used to build predictive models of human tissue function and disease? I integrate interfacial mechanics, imaging/analysis, and microphysiological systems engineering to control geometry, flow, matrix mechanics, and transport—then connect these variables to inflammation, immune dynamics, and therapeutic response.
Engineering a fully autologous iPSC-derived airway-on-a-chip (iAirway-Chip) to model patient-specific pulmonary barrier function and inflammatory responses.
Organs-on-chips,Small Airway-on-a-Chip, iPSCs, Down Syndrome
Engineered a 3D circular, matrix-embedded microvasculature-on-chip that sustains physiologically relevant shear distributions, enabling controlled studies of endothelial mechanotransduction within ECM and stromal co-culture contexts.
Organs-on-chipsVascular mechanobiologyECM
Eludidating viscoelastic response at unprecedented time and length scale; explaining short-time dynamics of softwetting; and applying these physical principles to design and fabrication of bio-inspired self-cleaning, anti-fouling surfaces for wearable electronics
bio-inspired self-cleaning,anti-fouling, soft surfaces, wetting ridge, wearable electronics
Engineered electric-field-based methods to control trapped air films during liquid–solid interactions, enabling suppression of bubble entrapment and improved boiling heat transfer for advanced cooling technologies.
dielectrophoretic,electronic cooling, splash suppression, air film entrapment
Mechanistic modeling and experimental characterization of electrowetting-driven droplet dynamics for programmable microfluidic actuation.
Electrowetting,Digital Microfluidics, Droplet control, Contact line dynamics
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