e-mail: amish@touch.caltech.edu
Current Research
I am currently working on my doctorate in Electrical Engineering. My research focuses on micromachined devices for airborne particle transportation, fast mixers for protein folding studies, and micro-nozzles for electrospray mass spectroscopy. These projects involve the application of VLSI chip fabrication technology to investigate the area of micro-fluidics and its potential for biochemical analyses. Please refer to publications for further information on research applications.
Education
B.S. Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993.M.S. Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1995.
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, exp. June 1999.
Publications
W. Tang, R. Miller, A. Desai,V. Temesvary, S. Wu, W. Hsieh, Y.C. Tai, and D. K. Miu. Silicon Micromachined Electromagnetic Microactuators For Rigid Disk Drives. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS, November 1995.
A. Desai, D. Bokenkamp, X. Yang, E. Marzluff, Y.C.Tai, and S. Mayo. Microfluidic Sub-millisecond Mixers for the Study of Chemical Reaction Kinetics. 1997 International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers '97), May 1997.
A. Desai, Y.C.Tai, M. T. Davis, and T. D. Lee A MEMS Electrospray Nozzle for Mass Spectroscopy. 1997 International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers '97), May 1997.
D. Bokenkamp, A. Desai, X. Yang, Y.C.Tai, E. Marzluff, and S. Mayo. Microfabricated Silicon Mixers for Submillisecond Quench-Flow Analysis. Journal of Analytical Chemistry, January 15, 1998.
A. Desai, S. W. Lee, and Y.C.Tai. A MEMS Electrostatic Particle Transportation System. 1998 The Eleventh Annual International Workshop on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS '98), Jan 1998.
X.Q. Wang, Amish Desai, and Y.C.Tai. Polymer Based Electrospray Chips for Mass Spectrometry. Twelfth IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS'99), January 1999.