Jun-Chau Chien (Advisor)

Research Advised by Professor Jun-Chau Chien

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BPNX1004: Low Noise Electrochemical Aptamer-Based Sensing Device

Ya-Chen (Justine) Tsai
2025

The Electrochemical Aptamer-based (E-AB) sensors provide continuous and real-time monitoring of specific target molecules, including proteins, antibiotics, neurotransmitters, and more. Due to the cost-effectiveness compared to enzyme sensing assays, E-AB platforms hold significant promise for point-of-care devices and precision medicine. However, sensitivity remains a challenge, particularly in the complicated environment, such as blood and serum. While research has achieved a noise level in the picoampere range, enhancing sensitivity is crucial for detecting trace amounts of certain...

Sarika Madhvapathy

Graduate Student Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Jun-Chau Chien (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2026 (Anticipated)

Sarika received her B.S. from UC Berkeley in 2020 and her M.S. from UC Berkeley in 2021. She is currently a PhD candidate advised by Prof. Jun-Chau Chien, Prof. Ali Niknejad, and Prof. Vladimir Stojanović. Her research involves using silicon microring resonators as ultrasound sensors in a monolithic electronics-photonics process.

BSAC Fall 2024 Research Review Presenter

Venkata Alapati

Graduate Student Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Jun-Chau Chien (Advisor)
M.S. 2025 (Anticipated)

BPNX1038: CMOS Flow Deformability Cytometry (New Project)

Lily Li
Venkata Alapati
2025

Cell deformability is a label-free biomarker with great potential for studying various cellular processes and disease states. This mechanical property provides insights into changes in the cytoskeleton, nuclear structure, and overall cell state, demonstrating significant clinical potential in cancer research, immune responses, and stem cell sorting.

The current state-of-the-art method for detecting cell deformability combines inertial microfluidics for precise cell positioning with an ultra-high-speed camera to capture the degree of cell deformation under strong fluidic pressure...

Ya-Chen (Justine) Tsai

Graduate Student Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Jun-Chau Chien (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2029 (Anticipated)

Ya-Chen (Justine) Tsai is now a second year PhD student in EECS Department, UC Berkeley. She received her B.S. in National Taiwan University, Department of Electrical Engineering in 2023. Her research interest focuses on CMOS-based microsystems for biosensing, especially the application catered to electrochemical aptamer-based sensing.

BSAC Spring 2024 Research Review Presenter

Jun-Chau Chien Receives the Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

December 11, 2024

Jun-Chau Chien

BSAC Co-Director Jun-Chau Chien is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award for his work Chip-Scale Multi-Modal RF-to-Millimeter-Wave Biosensing!

National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards are among the NSF's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-...

Lily Li

Graduate Student Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Jun-Chau Chien (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2028 (Anticipated)

Wei-Yu Lin

Graduate Student Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Jun-Chau Chien (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2029 (Anticipated)