State University Engineering

Tung-Yi Lin

East Lansing, Michigan ****.******@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/tung-yi-lin/

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

* ***** ** *****-************ research experience in process definition, problem solving and data analysis

7 years of R&D experience in metrology, equipment trouble-shoot and products integration

7 years of microfluidic experience in application design, fabrication and characterization

7 years of fabrication experience in cleanroom facility for chip development on 4 inch wafer

7 years of mentoring experience with more than 10 people including undergrads and grads

4 years of leading experience with 8 people from 3 different groups

Comprehensive knowledge of bio-processing such as ELISA and Western-blot

Outstanding R&D ability with 9 publications

EDUCATION

Michigan State University Aug 2013 – Present

Degree: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (GPA: 3.6 / 4.0) National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) Sep 2010 – Jun 2012 Degree: M.S. Engineering and System Science (GPA: 4.0 / 4.0) National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) Sep 2006 – Jun 2010 Degree: B.S. Engineering and System Science

Overall GPA: 3.6 / 4.0 ; Major GPA: 3.8 / 4.0 ;Last 60 Credit GPA: 4.0 / 4.0 SKILLS

Proficient with software such as MATLAB, Python, C++, LabVIEW, COMSOL, CoventorWare, Excel, Image J, Origin

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

Michigan State University Sep 2013 – Present

Laboratory Setup and Equipment Installations

The first graduate student worked in Dr. Lillehoj’s lab

Setup equipment, defined experiment process, documented operating manuals and trouble-shoot for machines

Managed three projects simultaneously including instructed five undergraduate students Development of Microfluidic Biosensor Device for Point-of-Care Testing Feb 2014 – Present

Developed a plastic-based microfluidic chip for rapid measurements of biomarker on mobile phone platform

Designed and manufactured a finger-powered pumping mechanism that manipulate microfluidic flow without adding external equipment. Customized microfluidic chip to integrate with circuit board and mobile phone.

Optimized bioassay processing and preparation to achieve malaria clinical detecting range for from 0.1 - 20 μg/mL and total measurement is completed within 6 min.

Performed our platform by measuring actual patient samples in Africa in 2017 Enhancing the stability of thermoplastics for microfluidic devices Oct 2013 – Dec 2016

Investigated the long-term stability of UVO-treated plastics for up to 16 weeks

Optimized plastic stability by storing in vacuum condition for inhibiting hydrophobic recovery on plastics

Enhanced 3X of protein adsorption efficiency on plastics surface by adjusting duration of UVO treatment 3D printed metal molds for hot embossing plastic microfluidic devices Sep 2014 – Sep 2016

Fabricated plastic microfluidic devices via hot embossing using 3D printed metal molds

Characterized 3D printing quality with boron nitride compositions to improve surface completeness by 10X

Optimized fabrication process to achieve superior material properties and high replication accuracy (> 99%)

Exhibited comparable performance as CNC-molded device for capillary and pressure-driven flows National Tsing Hua University Sep 2010 – Jun 2012

MEMS and Microfluidic Design and Device Fabrication

Designed microfluidic chip in the effect of flow field for blood composition sorting, the separation rate is higher than 99.9%

Fabricated high aspect ratio (5:1) channel of silicone (PDMS) via photo-lithography and molding process

Developed microdevice for various of applications such as gyroscope, pressure and gas sensors Nanosphere Lithography Fabrication and Stem Cell Application

Used 500 nm polystyrene beads self-assembly technique to form imprinting template and fabricated controllable uniform nano-structured pillar arrays on 2 cm x 2 cm silicon substrate

Incubated stem cell on nano-structured with exterior dynamic force to observe cell behavior and proliferation Cell Handling Techniques

Cultured primary chondrocyte cells and tumor cells in vitro on treated structured material for five passages.

Measured cells activity by performing MTT assay and LDH assay.

Proficiency with cell staining, cell transfection and cell culturing techniques. HONORS and CERTIFICATES

Michigan State University Aug 2013 – Present

Nominated for "Best Paper" award at IEEE International Conference on NEMS, 2017

1st prize of DewGood Public Service Technology Award in MSU Symposium, 2017

Council of Graduate Student Research Conference Award, 2017

Annals of Biomedical Engineering Most Downloaded Article, 2015

Engineering Distinguished Fellowship Award, 2014

Certification of Lurie Nanofabrication Facility, University of Michigan

Certification of Keck Microfabrication Facility, Michigan State University National Tsing Hua University Sep 2010 – Jun 2012

Certification of Lithography Fabrication Operating License and Cellular Chemistry Laboratory Operating License, Dept. of Engineering and System Science.

Certification of Scanning Electron Microscope Operating License, Center of Electron Microscopy. PATENT

Electrochemical ELISA on a Finger-powered Microfluidic Chip (under processing) PUBLICATIONS

Tung-Yi Lin, Trey Pfeiffer, Peter Lillehoj, “Enhancing the stability of UV/Ozone-treated thermoplastics for microfluidic analytical devices.”, RSC Advances, 2017 (submitted) Tung-Yi Lin, Sina Parsnejad, Linlin Tu, Andrew Mason, Peter Lillehoj, “ Finger-Powered Microfluidic Electrochemical Assay for Mobile Phone-based Diagnostic Testing.”, Oral presented at 12th Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, Apr. 2017 Tung-Yi Lin, Do Truong, Patrick Kwon, Peter Lillehoj, “3D printed metal molds for hot embossing plastic microfluidic devices”, Lab Chip, 2017

Sina Parsnejad, Tung-Yi Lin, Linlin Tu, Peter Lillehoj, Andrew Mason, “Compact, Adaptive, Multichannel Electrochemical Instrument for Point-of-Care Sensing”. at IEEE-NIH 2016 Conference on Hi-POCT, Nov. 2016

Tung-Yi Lin, Peter Lillehoj, “Stability of uv/ozone treatment of plastics for capillary-driven microfluidics”. at Hilton Head Workshop, June 2016

Sina Parsnejad, Tung-Yi Lin, Linlin Tu, Peter Lillehoj, Andrew Mason, “Portable Electrochemical Malaria Detection System for Affordable In-field Measurement”. at Engineering Research Symposium, 2016 Xiyuan Liu, Tung-Yi Lin, Peter Lillehoj, “Smartphones for Cell and Biomolecular Detection”. 2014. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 42(11):2205-17

Tung-Yi Lin, Tsung-Ju Chen, Yu-Ling Wang, Fan-Gang Tseng. “ Increased Proliferation of Primary Chondrocyte Cells by Nanostructure and Cycling Mechanical Stimulation on PDMS Cell Chip” at 26th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Jan. 2013 Tung-Yi Lin, Tsung-Ju Chen, Fan-Gang Tseng. “Proliferation Rate Regulation of Primary Chondrocyte Cells by Applying a Cycling Mechanical Stimulation on Flexible Micro Cells Well” Oral presented at 7th Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, Mar. 2012 Tung-Yi Lin, Tsung-Ju Chen, Fan-Gang Tseng. “Applying a Cyclic Mechanical Stimulation on Flexible Cells Well to Regulate Chondrocytes Proliferation Rate.” Presented at 4th International Symposium on Microchemistry and Microsystems, June. 2012

OUTREACH AND SERVICE

Michigan State University Sep 2013 – Present

Assisted Dr. Lillehoj with arranging K-12 high school engineering summer camp, 2015 and 2016

Led a Middle school STEM club for campus visiting, 2015

Mentored RET program high school teacher for project development, 2014 and 2015 National Tsing Hua University

International Conference Arrangement Jun 2012

Assisted in holding the 4th International Symposium on Microchemistry and Microsystems

Connected with speakers and participate speakers

Host couple sightseeing tours in Taiwan

Teaching Assistant Sep 2010 – Jun 2012

Teaching class of “Introduction of Engineering and System Science”

Assisted in teaching of “Introduction of Energy Engineering” by Prof. Pen-Cheng Wang Math, Science and English tutors Oct 2008 – Jun 2011

Tutored high school students in dealing with school curriculum EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Im League Basketball Club (Captain) Aug 2013 – Present Taiwanese Graduate Student Association (Secretary) Aug 2013 – Present Young Entrepreneurs of the Future Program (Member) Feb 2010 – Jul 2010 Pop-Dance Club (Instructor) Sep 2010 – Jun 2012

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