Arum Han, Ph.D.
Texas Instruments Professor
Chancellor’s EDGES Fellow
Presidential Impact Fellow
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering (courtesy joint)
Department of Chemical Engineering (courtesy joint)
Director, NanoBio Systems Lab.
Director, AggieFab Nanofabrication Facility (aggiefab.tamu.edu)
Faculty, Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience (TAMIN)
Faculty, Toxicology
Graduate Faculty, Texas A&M Health Science Center
Texas A&M University
Office: 237 GERB & 309C WERC
E-mail: arum.han@ece.tamu.edu
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Short Bio
Dr. Han is the Texas Instruments Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Chancellor’s EDGES Fellow and the Presidential Impact Fellow of Texas A&M University. He also holds joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Chemical 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. His research focuses on development of microfluidic, lab-on-a-chip, and organ-on-a-chip systems that enable unique biological experiments at high throughput and high accuracy that can then be readily adopted by the broad bio/medical science community. He has pioneered the area of high-throughput microfluidics for microbiology applications, and have been applying these technologies for synthetic biology, host-pathogen interactions, infectious disease, and microbial bioproduction. Developing technologies that enable complex multi-step biological assays that involves mammalian cells, microorganisms, and viruses to be conducted in high-throughput microfluidics format are some of his key accomplishments. He has also pioneered the area of organ-on-a-chip systems for feto-maternal interface and preterm birth research, and is applying these microphysiological system models for new therapeutic development and environmental toxicant testing. He is an extremely prolific multidisciplinary researcher, with 95 journal publications, 68 peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and 10 patents/patent applications with his doctoral and postdoctoral trainees, and has been leading and co-leading numerous multi-disciplinary projects. He is also the director of the AggieFab Nanofabrication Facility, a campus-wide core user facility. Under his leadership, the AggieFab went through rapid expansion.
Throughout his academic career, Dr. Han has served as the primary advisor for 17 postdoctoral researchers, 16 PhD students, and 13 MS students. In addition, he advised 48 undergraduate students who participated in undergraduate research in his NanoBio Systems Laboratory. He currently mentors 2 research scientists, 4 postdoctoral researchers, 5 PhD students, and 1 MS student, with 1 more postdoctoral researcher and 3 more PhD students joining the laboratory in Fall 2021. Among the trainees, 21% were from underrepresented minority groups. The productivity of the trainees has been outstanding, with all trainees leaving the lab with at least one journal publication, and all doctoral trainee at least two or more journal publications. The trainees have received many awards, including best poster awards at conferences, best PhD student award, outstanding graduate student award, and NSF graduate student fellowship. Nine former trainees hold academic positions as professors, with several others working at research institutions.
Research Interest
Solving Grand Challenge Problems in the broad area of Health, Biotechnology, Sustainable Energy, and Synthetic Biology through the use of Micro/Nano Systems Technology
– Organ-on-a-chip (tissue chip)
– Synthetic Biology & Cell-based Biomanufacturing
– Drug/Vaccine Development against Infectious Diseases (both viral and microbial)
– Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip Systems
– Point of Care (POC) Diagnosis Systems
Honors and Awards
– 2022 Regional Solid Waste Management Award for Environmental Education and Outreach for Schools
– 2022 Patent and Innovation Award 2022, Texas A&M University
– 2022 U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Honorary Awards for Science of 2021
– 2021 Engineering Genesis Award, Texas A&M University
– 2021 Engineering Dean’s Research Fellow, Texas A&M University
– 2021 Chancellor EDGES Fellow, Texas A&M University
– 2020 Engineering Genesis Award, Texas A&M University
– 2019 Engineering Genesis Award for Multidisciplinary Research, Texas A&M University
– 2017 Presidential Impact Fellow, Texas A&M University
– 2016 Dean of Engineering Excellence Award, Texas A&M University
– 2015 E. D. Brockett Professorship Award, Texas A&M University
– 2014 Engineering Genesis Award for Multidisciplinary Research, Texas A&M University
– 2014 Eugene Webb Faculty Fellow, Texas A&M University
– 2012 Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Fellow
– 2012 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Outstanding Professor Award, Texas A&M University
Key Professional Activities
– Editor-in-Chief, Biomedical Microdevices (2021-)
– Editorial Board, Algal Research (2019-)
– Editorial Advisory Board, Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering (2018-)
– Technical Program Committee, 2024 International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose, Grapevine, TX
– Track Co-Chair, Sensor Materials, Fabrication and Packaging, IEEE Sensors 2023, Vienna, Austria
– Track Co-Chair, Sensor Materials, Fabrication and Packaging, IEEE Sensors 2022, San Antonio, TX
– Technical Program and Advisory Committee, 2022 Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES)
– Executive Technical Program Committee, IEEE MicroelectromechanicalSystems (MEMS) 2019, 2020
– Technical Program Committee, MicroTAS 2015, 2916, 2017, 2018
– Tutorial Co-Chair, IEEE 57th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, College Station, TX, USA, 2014
– Promotion Committee, The 16th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (μTAS), Okinawa, Japan, 2012
– General Co-Chair, The 3rd Circuits and Systems for Medical and Environmental Applications (CASME 2012), 2012, Merida, Mexico
– Technical Program Committee (TPC), The 16th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems (Transducers) 2011, Beijing, China
– Senior Member, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineering (IEEE)