Mike Liu

 

 

 

 

 

 

136-93 Caltech
Moore Laboratory
Pasadena, CA 91125
U.S.A.

E-mail: mikeliu (at) caltech (dot) edu
Phone: (626) 395-3884
Fax: (626) 584-9104

Office: Moore 47

 

 


Education

Research Projects

  • Cell Culture Array with Integrated Combinatorial Mixer
  • 3-D Microfluidic
  • Impedance Flow Cytometer (With Siyang)

Research Experience

·         May 2005~Present:   Graduate Research Assistant        
     Advisor: Professor Y.C. Tai
     Caltech Micromachining Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
     Project Area: Microfluidic, MEMS

·         May 2002~January 2004:   Research Assistant       
     Advisor: Professor Professor Luke P. Lee
     BioPOETS Lab, UC Berkeley
     Project Areas: Microlens Fabrication/Simulation, Finite Element Analysis

Publication

    Archival Journal Papers

·         Mike C. Liu, Dean Ho, and Yu-Chong Tai, Monolithic fabrication of three-dimensional microfluidic networks for constructing cell culture array with an integrated combinatorial mixer, Sens. Actuators B: Chem. (2007), doi:10.1016/j.snb.2007.09.074 (in print)

·         Siyang Zheng, Mike Liu, and Yu-Chong Tai, Micro coulter counters with platinum black electroplated electrodes for human blood cell sensing, Biomedical Microdevices, DOI 10.1007/s10544-007-9128-5 (in print).

    Conference Proceeding Papers

·         Mike C. Liu and Yu-Chong Tai, Monolithic Multilevel Microfluidic Networks with Integrated Membrane: Applications for on-chip Cell Co-Culture and Fabrication of Biomimetic Culture Chamber, Technical Digest, The 11th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS’07), Paris, France, Oct. 7-11, 2007, pp. 1140-1142.

·         Mike C. Liu, Dean Ho, and Yu-Chong Tai, A Monolithically Fabricated Combinatorial Mixer for Microchip-Based High-Throughput Cell Culturing Assays, Technical Digest, The 2nd Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE-NEMS' 07), Bangkok, Thailand, Jan. 16-19, 2007, pp. 993-996.

·         Mike C. Liu, D. Ho, and Y.C. Tai, Monolithic 3-D Microfluidic Device for Cell Assay with an Integrated Combinatorial Mixer, Technical Digest, The 14th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers '07), Lyon, France, June 10-14, 2007.

·         S. Zheng, M. Liu, H. L. Kasdan, and Y. C. Tai, "Platinum Black Electroplated Impedance Particle Sensor," presented at The First Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE-NEMS ’ 06), Zhuhai, China, 2006.