Chao-Min Cheng is currently a tenured professor at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University, where he started in the summer of 2011, and was recently selected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009. He has received the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award, and the Outstanding Research Award from Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology. His research has been highlighted in the National Academies–Keck Futures Initiative, Scientific American, Chemistry World, New York Times, and Lab on a Chip (along with several other media outlets). His research keywords include Diagnostic Devices for Public Health, Cellular & Molecular Biomechanics and Immunology.