BIOGRAPHY
Shao Ning Pei received his B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2009, and his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2011. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree.

Light-Actuated Digital Microfluidics (Optoelectrowetting) [BPN552]
The ability to quickly perform large numbers of chemical and biological reactions in
parallel using low reagent volumes is a field well addressed by droplet-based digital
microfluidics. Compared to continuous flow-based techniques, digital microfluidics offers the added
advantages such as individual sample addressing and reagent isolation. We are developing a Light-
Actuated Digital Microfluidics device (also known as optoelectrowetting) that optically manipulates
nano- to micro-liter scale aqueous droplets on the device surface. The device possesses many
advantages including ease of fabrication (no lithography required) and the ability for real-time,
reconfigurable, large-scale droplets control (simply by altering the low-intensity projected light
pattern). We hope to develop Light-Actuated Digital Microfluidics into a powerful platform for lab-
on-a-chip (LOC) applications.