Dr. Hugh Fan is an associate professor of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida. He is one of six faculty members of Interdisciplinary Microsystems Group (IMG), an interdepartmental laboratory between the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining the University of Florida, Dr. Fan was a Principal Scientist at ACLARA BioSciences Inc. (Mountain View, CA) and was previously a Member of the Technical Staff at Sarnoff Corp. (Princeton, NJ).

Dr. Fan's research interests include microfluidics, BioMEMS (Biomedical MicroElectroMechanical Systems), sensors, and bioengineering. His research focus is to develop microfluidics and BioMEMS technologies and apply them to biological applications. Microfluidics is promising to reach the holy grail of “lab-on-a-chip”. In analogy to shrinking a computer from the size of a room in the 1950s to a laptop today, instruments for chemical and biological analyses may be miniaturized using modern microfabrication technology. Potential applications of the portable, miniaturized devices may include point-of-care testing (e.g., in emergency rooms), environmental monitoring, and detection of biowarfare agents in the field.

Dr. Fan received his B. Sc. from Yangzhou Teachers' College in China and his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in Canada. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Ames Laboratory of US Department of Energy at Iowa State University. He joined UF in 2003 after more than eight years of industrial experience.

Email: hfan@ufl.edu; Telephone: 352-846-3021; Fax: 352-392-7303; Office: NEB 227

Mailing Address: University of Florida, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, 231 MAE-A Building, P.O. Box 116250, Gainesville, FL 32611-6250, USA

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College of Engineering

University of Florida

University of Alberta

Iowa State University

Yangzhou University

Sarnoff Corp.