Arum Han

Arum is a founder of HelioWave. He is the Texas Instruments Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Chancellor’s EDGES Fellow, and the Presidential Impact Fellow of Texas A&M University. He also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is a Graduate Faculty of the Texas A&M Health Science Center, Faculty of the Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience, and Faculty of Toxicology. He holds degrees from Seoul National University (B.S., Electrical Engineering), University of Cincinnati (M.S., Electrical Engineering), and Georgia Institute of Technology (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering). His research expertise is in the development of microfluidic, lab-on-a-chip, and organ-on-a-chip systems and their applications in synthetic biology, microbiology, host-pathogen interactions, infectious disease, and microbial bioproduction. He has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and his research is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, NIH, NSF, DARPA, DTRA, ARL, ARO, USDA, as well as several other private foundations. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the journal Biomedical Microdevices, and also serves as an editor/editorial board member of many leading journals.