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讲座信息

Boosting the Coming Age of Biochips: EDA Solutions for Microfluidic Large-Scale Integration

报告人：姚海龙（清华大学）
时 间：2016年4月20日周三下午14:00-14:45
地 点：张江校区微电子楼369室

Abstract
Microfluidic biochips have revolutionized the traditional biological, biochemical and biomedical experimental processes. Noticeable merits of microfluidic biochips over traditional laboratory platforms include: (1) greatly saving the assay cost by reducing expensive samples/reagents to nano-liter or pico-liter volume, (2) effectively integrating the automatic control logic for reduced human intervention and labor cost, (3) significantly increasing sensitivity, accuracy and throughput, (4) essentially facilitating portability for point-of-care diagnostics, and (5) naturally enabling microscale assays (e.g., single-cell culture, capture and analysis) that are infeasible by traditional macroscale approaches. According to Research and Markets, the global biochips market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 18.6% from 2012 to 2018, and will reach $11.4 billion by 2018. Microfluidic biochips have many promising applications, such as diagnostics and treatment, drug discovery and development, biological research, forensic analysis, agriculture, environmental sensors, food inspection, etc. This talk will introduce the fundamental microfluidics technology for biochips, as well as the electronic design automation (EDA) solutions for enabling microfluidic large-scale integration, which will boost the coming age of real-time health monitoring along with personalized preventive health care.

Biography
Hailong Yao received the B.S. degree in computer science and technology from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and technology from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2007. From 2007 to 2009, he was a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego. After that, he joined the Department of Computer Science and Technology in Tsinghua University as an assistant professor. His research interests include computer-aided design for microfluidic biochips, very large scale integration (VLSI) physical design, design-manufacturing interface, etc. Dr. Yao has published over 40 research papers. He received two Best Paper Award Nominations at ICCAD in 2006 and 2008, respectively. He received the ISQED Best Paper Award Nomination in 2011. He is a senior member of IEEE.