Dan has published and presented a number of papers and journals at top national and international conferences: Journal on Emerging Technology (JETC), Transactions on Computer Aided Design (TCAD), Design Automation Conference (DAC), Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK), Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLS-VLSI), VLSI-System-on-Chip (VLSI-SoC) and the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC).
Dan received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati (UC) in 2008, his M.S. in Computer Science in 2011 from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) and plans to complete his Ph.D in Computer Science in 2014; he also performed research at the University of Tennessee in 2012.
Dan has worked in a wide variety of industrial settings: a government research laboratory, a top United State’s defense contractor, a leading hardware/processor manufacturer, a small web-development company and a large, private, agile-based software development company.
Digital microfluidic biochips (DMFBs) manipulate droplets of fluid on the micro-liter to nano-liter scale (that’s really tiny) to perform biochemical reactions called assays. Some of the most popular assay applications for DMFBs are in-vitro diagnostics and immunoassays used in clinical pathology, DNA amplification applications, and protein crystallizations used to help determine the structure of proteins.