Handbook of Single-Cell Technologies

Dr. Tuhin Subhra Santra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Design at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, from July 2016. He was a tenure track "Honorary Visiting Professor" at National Tsing Hua University" Taiwan from 2108~2020 and he was a "Visiting Professor" at the University of Cambridge, the UK in 2019. Dr. Santra received his Ph.D. degree in Bio-Nano Electromechanical Systems (Bio-NEMS) from National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan in 2013. Dr. Santra was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the California Nano System Institute (CNSI), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, from 2015~2016. His main research areas are Bio-NEMS, MEMS, Single Cell Technology, Single Molecule Detection, Biomedical Micro/Nano Devices, Nanomedicine, etc. Currently, Dr. Santra serving as a Guest Editor for Cell and Micromachines, MDPI Journals. He served as a Guest Editor for the Journal of Cells, MDPI, in 2020, International Journal of Molecular Science (IJMS) in 2018, 2017 and 2015, and Sensors Journal in 2016, Journal of Molecules in 2016, Micromachines in 2020, and 2013, among others. He was conference chair and committee member of IEEE-NEMS in 2017, 2020 and 2021.

Dr. Santra has received many honors and awards such as "Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Fellowship" in 2018, Honorary Research Fellow from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan in 2018, Bharat Bikas Award in 2017, IEEE-NEMS best conference paper award in 2014, a silver medal from Vidyasagar University in 2004, etc. He was Editor of the book entitled "Nanomaterials and Their Biomedical Applications" by Springer Nature, Singapore, in 2021, "Microfluidics and Bio-NEMS: Devices and Applications" by Jenny Stanford Publisher, Singapore, in 2020, and "Essential of Single Cell Analysis" Springer, Germany in 2016, among others. He published more than 6 Books, 35 SCI Journals, 20 Book chapters, 15 US/Taiwan/Indian patents and 20 International conference proceedings in his research field.

Dr. Fan-Gag (kevin) Tseng received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from UCLA, USA, in 1998. He joined Engineering and System Department of National Tsing Hua University in 1999 and advanced to Professor in 2006. He was the Chairman of ESS Dept. in NTHU (2010-2013), the Associate Vice President for Global Affair in NTHU (2013), a Visiting Scholar of Koch institute of Integrated Cancer Research in MIT USA (2014-2015), and the Dean of Nuclear Science College in NTHU (2016-2017). He is currently a distinguished professor of ESS Dept. as well as NEMS I., and the Vice President for R&D at NTHU (2017-president), as well as a research fellow with Academia Sinica Taiwan (2006-president). He was elected an ASME fellow in 2014. His research interests are in the fields of BioNEMS, Biosensors, Micro-Fluidics, Tissue Chips, and Fuel Cells. He received 60 patents, wrote 8 book chapters, published more than 260 SCI Journal papers and 400 conference technical papers. He received several awards, including, Shakelton Scholar, twice National Innovation Award, twice Outstanding in research award, and Mr. Wu, Da-Yo Memorial Award from MOST, Taiwan, and more than twenty best papers and other awards in various international conferences and competitons. He is among the editorial board of several Journals including IJMS, Cells, Micromachines, and Applied Science, and also the general co-chair for MicroTas 2018 and a board member of CBMS from 2018 to 2022.