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  Our Research - Microfluidics and Microplumbing
  • "It’s kind of like plumbing; we’re moving fluids around and dealing with different pressures and flows. Only we’re doing it on a microchip, as opposed to a house,” [Link]
  • Opening: SMALL is looking for students.
    • Ph.D. student who wants to join my research group from Fall 2024.
    • UB senior undergraduate who wants to join my research group from Spring 2024 AND continue to study in UB EE's PhD program under Prof. Oh's guidance from Fall 2024.

 

 
  June 2024
  • Conference Chair: "Micro & Bio Fluidics, Lab-on-Chip" at NanoTech 2024, Washington DC, June 17-19, 2024 [Link]

 

 
  February 2024
  • Publication:  Philip J. Schneider, Liam B. Christie, Nicholas M. Eadie, Tyler J. Siskar, Viktor Sukhotskiy, Domin Koh, Anyang Wang, and Kwang W. Oh,"Pysanky to Microfluidics: An Innovative Wax-Based Approach to Low Cost, Rapid Prototyping of Microfluidic Devices," Micromachines, 15(2), 240. [Link]

 

 
  January 2024
  • New SMALL Member:
    • Emamul Kabir (Spring 2024-)

 

 
December 2023
  • PhD Defense: Congratulations to Dr. Liam Christie (MS, EE, UB, 2021; BS, EE, UB, 2020). He has successfully defended his doctoral thesis dissertation, "Study of Test Phantoms for Medical Photoacoustic and Optical Imaging Applications," on 12/12/2023. 

 

  August 2023
  • Publication: Christie LB, Zheng W, Johnson W, Marecki EK, Heidrich J, Xia J, Oh KW, "Review of imaging test phantoms," J Biomed Opt. 2023 Aug; 28(8): 080903. doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.28.8.080903. Epub 2023 Aug 22. PMID: 37614568; PMCID: PMC10442662. [Link]

  • Course Offering: The course "EE 426/526 Wearable and Implantable Sensors" has a total of 73 students enrolled for the Fall of 2023. [Link]
  • New SMALL Member:
    • Ben Germaine (SMALL Member: Fall 2023-)

 

 
  June 2023
  • Conference Chair: "Micro & Bio Fluidics, Lab-on-Chip" at NanoTech 2023, Washington DC, June 19-21, 2023 [Link]

 

 
  April 2023
  • Mr. Will Johnson is one of fifteen UB students receiving a 2023 recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence. [Link]

 

 
  March 2023
  • MS Defense: Congratulations to Mr. Will Giegerich (MS, EE, UB, 2023; BS, EE, UB, 2022). He has successfully defended his MS thesis dissertation, "Improving Vehicle Inspection and Assessment using Classical Computer Vision and Machine Learning Algorithms," on 3/29/2023. 

 

 
  January 2023
  • New SMALL Member:
    • Jack Bakleh (SMALL Member: Spring 2023-)

 

 
  August 2022
  • Buffalo Engineer 2022: Our SMALL members, Phil Schneider (2014 - current), Dennis Fedorishin (2017 - 2020), and William Giegerich (2020 - current), working at ACV are featured in Buffalo Engineer 2022 Magazine. See above images [Link]

 

  June 2022
  • Conference Chair: "Micro & Bio Fluidics, Lab-on-Chip" at NanoTech 2022, Washington DC, June 13-15, 2022 [Link]

 

  February 2022
  • Liam Christie is one of eight UB students receiving SUNY GREAT awards [Link]
  January 2022
  • New SMALL Member:
    • Eric Merecki (SMALL Member: Spring 2022-)
  December 2021
  • MS Defense: Congratulations to Mr. Liam Chrstie (MS, EE, UB, 2021; BS, EE, UB, 2020). He has successfully defended his MS thesis dissertation, "Development of Optically, Ultrasonically, and Mechanically Equivalent Test Phantoms For Photoacoustic Applications," on 12/14/2021. 

 

  October 2021
  • Conference Chair: "Micro & Bio Fluidics, Lab-on-Chip" at NanoTech 2021, Washington DC, October 18-20, 2021 [Link]

 

  June 2021
  • New SMALL Member:
    • James Heidrich (SMALL Member: Summer 2021-)
  April 2021
  • Prof. Oh has recieved Qualcomm Faculty Award. [Link] [Link]

 

  April 2021
  • Publication: Anyang Wang, Samaneh M. Boroujeni, Philip J. Schneider, Liam B. Christie, Kyle A. Mancuso, Stelios T. Andreadis, Kwang W. Oh, 2021. "An Integrated Centrifugal Degassed PDMS-Based Microfluidic Device for Serial Dilution" Micromachines 12, no. 5: 482. [Link]

  • New SMALL Member:
    • Noah Wichlacz (SHIP/Under: Spring 2021-): BS (EE, UB, Expected in 2022)

 

  January 2021
  • Prof. Kwang W. Oh will serve as Director of Graduate Studies in Electrical Engineering at UB. [Link]
  • New SMALL Member:
    • Christopher Navarro (SMALL Meber: Spring 2021-): BS+MS (EE, UB, Expected in 2021) 

 

  October 2020
  • Publication: Anyang Wang, Samaneh Moghadasi Boroujeni, Stelios T. Andreadis and Kwang W. Oh, "An Integrated Centrifugal Degassed PDMS-Based Microfluidic Device for Serial Dilution," pp. 713-714, Proceeding of MicroTAS 2020 (24th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, October 4 - 9, 2020, Virtual) [Link]
  • Award: Prof. Kwang W. Oh receives The 2020 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, honoring those who consistently demonstrate superb teaching at the undergraduate, graduate or professional level. [Link]

 

  August 2020
  • Course: Prof. Kwang W. Oh teaches EE 426/526 Wearable and Implantable Sensors in Fall 2020, with a synchronous remote option.

 

  May 2020
  • Publication: Linfeng Xu, Anyang Wang, Xiangpeng Li, and Kwang W. Oh, "Passive micropumping in microfluidics for point-of-care testing," Biomicrofluidics 2020, 14, 031503 (IF: 2.531) [Link]



  • Conference Chair: "Micro & Bio Fluidics, Lab-on-Chip" at NanoTech 2021, Austin, TX, June 14-16, 2021 [Link]
  • PhD Defense: Congratulations to Dr. Anyang Wang (PhD, EE, UB, 2020; MS, EE, Tohoku University, Japan, 2014; BS, EE Tohoku University, Japan, 2012). He has successfully/virtually defended his PhD thesis dissertation on 05/11/2020 via WebEx as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. 


     
  • PhD Defense: Congratulations to Dr. Nikhila Nyayapathi (PhD, EE/BME, UB, 2020; MS, EE, UB, 2016; BE, EE, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, UAE, 2011). She was under Dr. Jun Xia's Optical & Ultrasonic Imaging Lab in BME and Dr. Kwang W. Oh's SMALL Lab in EE for her PhD study. She has successfully/virtually defended her PhD thesis dissertation on 05/12/2020 via Zoom as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

  April 2020
  • Congratulations to Mr. Liam Christie, a senior in our lab. He is this year’s recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Student Excellence. He has been a recipient of the WNY Prosperity Fellow scholarship since 2018, and has also undertaken internships in the Jacobs Institute and with Moog. He is an active member in our SMALL lab since 2016. He will join SMALL lab as a PhD student in 2020.
  • Guest Editor: Kwang W. Oh, "Biomedical Microfluidic Devices 2020", Micromachines (IF: 2.426) [Link]
  • Paper Publication: Kwang W. Oh, "Microfluidic Devices for Biomedical Applications: Biomedical Microfluidic Devices 2019," Micromachines 2020, 11(4), 370; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi11040370 (IF: 2.426) [Link]

 

  March 2020
  • EE Ranking: According to US News & World Report, our EE Department moved to 58 (in 2020) from the last year's ranking of 62 (in 2019) [Linkk].
  • Distance Learning: UB moving to distance learning from 3/23/2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak. In Spring 2020,  Prof. Kwang W. Oh offers EE 311 Electronic Devices & Circuits 2 (via YouTube/UBLearns) and EE 428/528 BioMEMS & Lab-on-chip (via Panopto/UBLearns).

 

  January 2020
  • New BS Students:
    • Ibrahima Barry (SHIP/Under: Spring 2020): BS (EE, UB, 2020)
    • William Johnson (SMALL Meber: Spring 2020 - ): BS (EE, UB, Expected in 2022) 
    • William Giegerich (SMALL Meber: Spring 2020 - ): BS (EE, UB, Expected in 2022) 
    • Nicholas Norwood (SMALL Meber: Spring 2020 - ): BS (EE, UB, Expected in 2022) 
  • MS Defense: Congratulations to Mr. Evan Breloff (MS, EE, UB, 2020; BS, EE, UB, 2013). He has successfully defended his MS thesis dissertation on 01/15/2020. He is now with Qualcomm in Buffalo.

 

  November 2019
  October 2019
  • Prof. Kwang W. Oh has been selected as a recipient of the 2019 President Emeritus and Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring. [Link]

 

  September 2019
  • COURSE OFFERING: [Fall 2019] EE 426/526 Wearable & Implantable Sensors.

 

  August 2019
  • PAPER PUBLICATION: Anyang Wang, Domin Koh, Philip Schneider, Evan Breloff, and Kwang W. Oh*, "A Compact, Syringe-Assisted, Vacuum-Driven Micropumping Device," Micromachines 2019, 10(8), 543, https://doi.org/10.3390/mi10080543 (IF: 2.426) [Link]

  • PAPER PUBLICATION: Nikhila Nyayapathi, Rachel Lim, Huijuan Zhang, Wenhan Zheng, Yuehang Wang, Melinda Tiao, Kwang W. Oh, X. Cynthia Fan, Ermelinda Bonaccio, Kazuaki Takabe, Jun Xia*, "Dual Scan Mammoscope (DSM) – A New Portable Photoacoustic Breast Imaging System with Scanning in Craniocaudal Plane," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2019.2936088 (IF: 4.491) [Link]

 

  June 2019
  • Visiting Scholar: Mr. Hyun Jin Yoo (PhD Candidate in Department of Integrative Engineering at Chung-Ang University, South Korea) will work in SMALL from June 2019 to September 2019.
  • CONFERENCE CHAIR: "Micro & Bio Fluidics, Lab-on-Chip" at NanoTech 2019, Boston, June 16-19, 2019.  

    Micro & Bio Fluidics, Lab-on-Chip

    Micro & Bio Fluidics, Lab-on-Chip

    Symposium Chair

    Kwang W. OhKwang W. Oh
    Professor
    University at Buffalo (SUNY)

     

    Micro-, and bio-fluidics are highly interdisciplinary fields that involve the study and control of transport processes and related physical and chemical phenomena, typically across multiple length and time scales and also within the human body and biological tissue down to the subcellular level. These fields are advancing rapidly and applications are proliferating, especially in the life sciences and biotechnology. The applications of these fields are broad and encompass a diverse range of areas that include micro total analysis systems (MicroTAS), lab-on-a-chip (LOC) technology, point-of-care (POC) clinical diagnostics, organs-on-chip, drug discovery and delivery, on-chip sensors, high-throughput systems, methods for computational fluid dynamics, nanofluids and many others. The aim of this symposium is to provide a forum to discuss fundamental phenomena and advances in these fields, associated technologies and current and emerging commercial applications.

    CONFIRMED INVITED TALKS:

    • Mehmet Toner: Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital
    • Rohit Karnik: MIT
    • Siddharatha Das: University of Maryland College Park
    • Junhong Min: Chung-Ang University, South Korea
    • Leslie Yeo: RMIT University, Australia
  February 2019
  • Prof. Kwang W. Oh has been awarded a 2019 Qualcomm Faculty Award (QFA) for research that “inspires students and sparks new approaches in key technology areas.” Related UBNow News: "UB engineer receives Qualcomm Faculty Award"  [Link]
  January 2019
  • Ph.D DEFENSE: Congratulations to Dr. Domin Koh (PhD, EE, UB, 2019; BS, EE, UB, 2013). He has successfully  defended his Ph.D. thesis dissertation on 01/14/2019. 
  November 2018
  • CONFERENCE PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS:
    • Anyang Wang, Domin Koh, Phil Schneider and Kwang W. Oh, "A compact syringe-assisted vacuum-driven micropumping with a constant flow rate," Proceedings of MicroTAS 2018, 11-15 November, 2018, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
    • Philip J. Schneider, Liam Christie, Anyang Wang, Domin Koh, and Kwang W. Oh, "Technology innovations in 3-D wax based microfluidic device fabrication," Proceedings of MicroTAS 2018,11-15 November, 2018, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

 

  September 2018
  • PAPER PUBLICATION: Kangsun Lee,* Choong Kim and Kwang W. Oh, "Single-Layered Microfluidic Network Based Combinatorial Dilution for Standard Simplex Lattice Design," Micromachines 2018, 9(10), 489; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi9100489 (IF: 2.222) [Link]

  • PAPER PUBLICATION: Yuehang Wang, Rachel Su Ann Lim, Huijuan Zhang, Nikhila Nyayapathi, Kwang W. Oh & Jun Xia*, "Optimizing the light delivery of linear-array-based photoacoustic systems by double acoustic reflector," Scientific Reports, volume 8, Article number: 13004 (2018) (IF: 4.122) ; [Link]
  • Prof. Oh's Fall 2018 Course(s): EE 428/528 BioMEMS and Lab-on-a-chip [Link]
  • Prof. Oh/SMALL has been featured in Buffalo Engineer Magazine 2018 [Link] [PDF]:

    BIG IDEAS ORIGINATING FROM SMALL

    researcher holds up hardware

    Kwang Oh is the director of the Sensors and MicroActuators Learning Lab, known as SMALL, which focuses on biomedical microfluidic devices, sensors and actuators.

     
  July 2018
  • Ph.D Defense: Congratulations to Dr. Philip Schneider (PhD, EE, UB, 2018; MS, EE, UB, 2016; BS, EE, UB, 2014). He has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis dissertation on 07/09/2018. He is now with ACV.
  • Accepted Abstracts:  Two abstracts have been selected for presentation in MicroTAS 2018, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

 

  June 2018
  • PAPER PUBLICATION: Bendong Liu*, Baohua Tian, Xu Yang, Mohan Li, Jiahui Yang, Desheng Li, and Kwang W. Oh, "Manipulation of micro-objects using acoustically oscillating bubbles based on the gas permeability of PDMS," Biomicrofluidics 12, 034111 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5028419 (IF: 2.535) [Link]


  • PAPER PUBLICATION: Yuehang Wang, Zhengxiong Li, Tri Vu, Nikhila Nyayapathi, Kwang W. Oh, Wenyao Xu and Jun Xia*, "A Robust and Secure Palm Vessel Biometric Sensing System based on Photoacoustics," IEEE Sensors Journal, DOI 10.1109/JSEN.2018.2843119, 2018 (IF: 2.512) [Link].

 

  May 2018

 

  February 2018

 

 
  • Kwang W. Oh, PhD, leads a team of researchers that is bringing the concept of “lab on a chip” closer to reality.

    Researchers Help Bring Us Closer to Coin-Sized Medical Labs

    Published February 6, 2018

    A team of researchers led by Kwang W. Oh, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering, has fabricated a chip that uses two different types of force — capillary- and vacuum-driven — to manipulate how fluids travel in micro- and nano-sized channels.

    “The chip could become the basis for faster, more efficient and reliable lab on a chip devices. It puts us closer to using such devices where medical labs are lacking, such as the developing world, battlefields and even our homes.”
    Associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering

    Medical Lab Could Fit on Chip the Size of Small Coin

    The idea — shrinking a medical lab onto a chip the size of a small coin — is known as “lab on a chip.” Using a hand-held device, a practitioner would be able to draw blood from a patient, and seconds later the device would provide in-depth medical information about the patient.

    It may sound like something from science fiction, but it’s coming closer to reality. Obstacles still remain; among them is finding an efficient and reliable way to mix and move blood and other fluids through the chip’s tiny valves and pumps.

    A new study, appearing on the cover of the Jan. 21 edition of the journal Lab on a Chip— which is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry — moves the scientific community closer to solving the problem.

    Device Could Be Used on Battlefields, in the Home

    The advancement solves a vexing issue, the researchers say, because in such devices, when blood is mixed with a reagent to produce a biological and/or chemical reaction, the pressure difference between the two fluids often causes them to flow backward instead of into the desired channel.

    “It’s kind of like plumbing; we’re moving fluids around and dealing with different pressures and flows. Only we’re doing it on a microchip, as opposed to a house,” said Oh, the study’s lead author. “The chip could become the basis for faster, more efficient and reliable lab on a chip devices. It puts us closer to using such devices where medical labs are lacking, such as the developing world, battlefields and even our homes.”

    Chip Requires No External Sources of Power

    In a series of experiments, the research team showed how its chip was able to accurately decipher the eight blood types based upon the time it takes for different blood types to flow through the chip. For example, when mixed with a certain antibody, Type A blood will thicken and flow slower.

    Oh says the device could be used for other biological and chemical assays. What’s more, the new chip requires no sensors or external sources of power. That’s key for medical device manufacturers, which are searching for ways to inexpensively produce disposable lab on a chip products.

    His four co-authors are also associated with UB. Anyang Wang, Domin Koh and Philip J. Schneider are doctoral candidates in electrical engineering, while Yaguang Zhai earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 2017.

    The research was partially supported by grants from the National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program and Qualcomm Incorporated.

    [Original News Article from UB Medical School]

 

  January 2018
  •  
    1/26/18

    Advancement in ‘microchip plumbing’ could aid developing countries, soldiers and chronic disease sufferers.

  • CONFERENCE CHAIR: Prof. Oh will serve "The US-KOREA Conference on Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship (UKC) 2018, August 1-4, 2018, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, NY, USA", as a sumposium cochair on Digital Technologies / Artificial Intelligence Symposiums: Electrical, Electronics and Communications (EEC) session. [Link]


  • PAPER PUBLICATION/COVER PAGE: Yaguang Zhai, Anyang Wang, Domin Koh, Philip Schneider and Kwang W. Oh*, "A robust, portable and backflow-free micromixing device based on both capillary- and vacuum-driven flows," Lab Chip, 2018, 18, 276-284; DOI: 10.1039/C7LC01077J (IF: 6.045). [Link]



 

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