Research Description

I am passionate about harnessing micro and nano-technology enhanced with chemical and analytical approaches to pioneer innovations for sensitive, selective, simple, and non-invasive diagnostics and beyond. These innovations extend from technologies enabling portable or wearable health monitors to those facilitating pharmaceutical quality assurance in the biomedical space. The core research thrusts of my team focus on single-molecule solid-state nanopore sensing, gas, and fluid sensing as well as surface-engineered systems to enable sensing. The modular nature of these technologies allows for their extension to environmental, food, and water quality testing. The overarching goal of my research is to develop practical, user-friendly, and accurate sensing and other enabling technologies for biomedical applications and beyond.