Jun. 2024: Mr. Jesus Vargas joined our lab for the BS/MS 4+1 Degree study.
Jun. 2024: Mr. Elvis Coronado joined our lab for Summer Undergraduate Research Program supported by SDSU MESA.
Jan. 2024: A graduate student, Kiana Strub, joined our group for the master’s degree study.
Jan. 2024: An undergraduate student, Mr. Colin Ro, joined our group for his undergraduate research project (ME499).
Jan. 2024: Mr. Islam’s optimization study on optical dielectrophoretic (DEP) manipulation of an oil-immersed droplet was published in Micromachines (IF: 3.523).
Oct. 2023: Dr. Park received the grant of $490,592 for the international collaborative work on high-sensitivity THz sensors for facility security and food safety, supported by Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, South Korea.
Aug. 2023: An undergraduate student, Ms. Jeanette Arratia, joined our group for her undergraduate research project (ME499).
Aug. 2023: Ms. Ya-Hsin Cheng successfully defended his MSME thesis, entitled “A liquid prism array for constant illumination via electrowetting”.
Aug. 2023: Dr. Park had an invited talk in the 36th US-Korea Conference (UKC 2023) on Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship, Dallas, TX, USA, Aug. 2 – 5, 2023.
Jun. 2023: Mr. Fermin Martinez-Contreras joined our group for Summer Undergraduate Research Program supported by SDSU MESA.
May. 2023: Dr. Park had an invited talk in the 18th International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular systems (IEEE NEMS 2023), Jeju, Korea, May 14 – 17, 2023.
Apr. 2023: Mr. Andrew Lin successfully defended his MSBioE thesis, entitled “Light-controlled droplet trapping, merging, and releasing in a PDMS-based microchannel device”.
Apr. 2023: Ms. Yeonwoo Lee’s work on a 3D spatial focal control system was published in Optics Express (IF: 3.833).
Feb. 2023: A visiting scholar, Dr. Kwak, joined our lab for collaborative work.
Feb. 2023: Mr. Janev’s work on a smartphone integrated paper (SIP) system for rapid and on-site screening of urinary tract infections was published in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (IF: 9.221).
Feb. 2023: Mr. Cheng-Hsun Lee successfully defended his MSME thesis, entitled “3D spatial focal control by arrayed optofluidic prisms”.
Feb. 2023: A graduate student, Daniel Arzate, joined our group for the master’s degree study.
Jun. 2023: Mr. Lee’s work on a 3D spatial focal control system was accepted for an oral presentation in the 36th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (IEEE MEMS 2023), Munich, Germany, Jan. 15 – 19, 2023.
Oct. 2022: Dr. Park had an invited talk about “a smartphone-based biosensor for water quality detection” in IEEE Sensors, 2022.
Aug. 2022: Mr. Athul Janev successfully defended his MSBioE thesis, entitled “A smartphone-integrated, paper microfluidic system for rapid and on-site diagnosis of urinary tract infections”.
Jul. 2022: A review paper on optoelectrowetting (OEW) technology was published in Lab on a Chip (IF: 7.517).
Jun. 2022: Mr. Janev’s work on smartphone-based detection of urinary tract infections (UTIs) was accepted for a poster presentation in the 26th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Science (MicroTAS 2022), Hangzhou, China, Oct. 23 – 27, 2022.
Apr. 2022: A current JDP student, Yeonwoo Lee, was awarded the 2022-2023 University Graduate Fellowship (UGF) from SDSU. Congratulations!!!
Mar. 2022: Mr. Sen, a new JDP student, was awarded the 2022-2023 Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship (PGRF) from SDSU. Congratulations!!!
Mar. 2022: A visiting scholar, Dr. Koo, joined our lab for collaborative work.
Feb. 2022: Mr. Thio’s work on Lab-on-a-Smartphone (LOS) for in-situ water quality detection was published in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (IF: 9.221).
Jan. 2022: Mr. Thio’s work on plasmonic-enhanced optical DEP manipulation was published in Micromachines (IF: 3.523).
Jan 2022: An undergraduate student, Mr. Luke Adame, joined our group for his undergraduate research project (ME499).
Oct. 2021: Mr. Thio’s work on smartphone-based water quality detection was presented in the 25th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Science (MicroTAS 2021), Palm Spring, CA, USA, Oct. 10 – 14, 2021.
Sept. 2021: A visiting scholar, Dr. Lee, joined our lab for collaborative work.
Aug. 2021: Two PhD students, Yeonwoo Lee and Joy Islam, joined our group for their doctoral degree study.
June 2021: Mr. Thio’s work on plasmonic-enhanced FEOET was presented in the 21st International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers 2021), Online, June 20 – 25, 2021.
June 2021: An undergraduate student, Mr. Ala Zeidan, joined our group for his undergraduate research project (ME499).
May 2021: Mr. Sterlen Barnes successfully completed the Plan B Project for his MSME program. Best of luck on his future career!!!
Apr. 2021: Dr. Park served as a Guest Editor for the Special Issue of “Advances in Electrowetting Devices,” Micromachines, MDPI.
Apr. 2021: A graduate student, Athul Janev, joined our group for the master’s degree study.
Mar. 2021: Dr. Lee’s work on AC electrowetting of an ion gel dielectric was published in Micromachines (IF: 3.523).
Feb. 2021: Dr. Park was awarded an NSF CAREER grant of $500,000 for the work on optofluidic solar indoor lighting.
Jan. 2021: Two graduate students, Chaztyn Pangelina and Sterlen Chase Barnes, joined our group for the master’s degree study.
Aug. 2020: Two graduate students, Cheng-Hsun Lee and Ya-Hsin Cheng, joined our group for the master’s degree study.
July 2020: Dr. Park served as a Guest Editor for the Special Issue of “Micro/Optofluidic devices for Bio and Energy Applications,” Micromachines, MDPI.
Jan. 2020: A graduate student, Andrew Lin, newly joined our group for his master’s degree study.
Jan. 2020: Mr. Thio’s work on plasmonic-enhanced OEW was published in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (IF: 9.221).
Dec. 2019: Mr. Thio’s work on highly-concentrated solar spectrum splitting technology was published in Energies (IF: 3.252).
Oct. 2019: An undergraduate student, Mr. Cameron Curet, joined our group for his undergraduate research project (ME499).
Aug. 2019: A team of 5 undergraduates joined our group for their Capstone Design Project (ME490).
July 2019: Mr. Thio’s work on optofluidic solar indoor lighting was presented in 2019 International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (IEEE OMN 2019), Daejeon, Korea, July 28 – Aug. 01, 2019.