Research

Selected projects:

Programmable microfluidics with light-controlled active matter

Active-matter-driven programmable microfluidics for cell transport, sorting, and mixing

Image-based motility and stress inference in tissues

Extract cell velocity and stress from static segmented images

Active healing of microtubule–motor networks

Geometry- and stress-controlled repair with a bifurcation in healing outcomes

Speech-driven virus transport

Space–time distancing rules from flow-resolved models of speech/breathing

Thin-film singularity: formation and healing of annular films

Universal thinning dynamics and bubble entrainment in healed threads

Diffusiophoresis in complex fluids

Charged drops and interacting particles in solute gradients

Magnetized liquid-metal films for fusion devices

Finite-conductivity effects overturn classical stability expectations