Hongkai Wu
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Biography
Hongkai Wu is a Professor in the Department of 九州影院 & Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China. Dr Wu received his BSc from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1995 and Ph.D from Harvard University, USA in 2002. After working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford, he joined the faculty in the Department of 九州影院 at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2005 and moved to HKUST as an Assistant Professor in 2007. In 2012, he was promoted to Associate Professor. From 2009 to 2015, he established a satellite laboratory at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, focusing on developing functional biomaterials.
Research at the Wu lab focuses on the interdisciplinary frontiers of microfluidics, bioanalytical science and materials chemistry. They use the technologies in MEMS, microfluidics, soft lithography, and surface chemistry to design and provide new tools for the applications and understanding of fundamentals in materials and biological sciences, including microfluidic chemical reactors, high throughput single-cell analysis and chemical separations.
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