Dr. Yi-Chung Tung was born and grew up in Keelung, the rain capital, in Taiwan.  He received  hid B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the National Taiwan UNiversity, Taipei, Taiwan in 1996 and 1998, respectively.  He recieved another M.S. degree in electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2004 and 2005, respectively.

His graduate research focused on design, fabrication and characterization of piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices, biomedical microdevices for flow cytometric detection, integrated polymer-on-silicon MEMS devices for micro optics and biological detection.  He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor for more than three years.  In 2009, he joined Research Center for Applied Sciences (RCAS), Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan as an Assistant Research Fellow.  His current research focuses n microfluidic device development for biological optical detection and cell culture in various microenvironments.

Dr. Tung has published more than 50 international journal and conference papers, and received SPIE OpticsEast Best Student Paper Award in 2004.  At University of Michigan, he received Robert M. Caddell Memorial Graduate Student Achievement Award (2004), Predoctoral Fellowship (2005), and Distinguished Dissertation Award Honorable Mention (2006).

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