Current Research
My current research interests include the design and fabrication of microfluidic devices for biological analysis and detection.
Education
Ph.D. student,
Mechanical Engineering, expected May 2011
B.S., Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
Mechanical Engineering, May 2006
Work Experience
Graduate Student Researcher (September 2006 - )
Molecular Mechanics Laboratory, University of California,
Undergraduate Research Assistant (December 2005 - May
2006)
BioMEMS and Single Molecule Dynamics Lab,
Undergraduate Research Assistant (May 2003 - December
2005)
Advanced Metallic and Ceramic Systems Laboratory,
Summer Intern (June 2000 – August 2000)
Animal Parasitic
Diseases
Conference Publications
and Presentations
- Lillehoj P., Li N., Tsutsui H., and Ho
C.M., “A Compact Microfluidic Continuous Flow Separator for Particle and
Cell Sorting” Proceedings of 21st Annual IEEE International Conference on
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS’08),
- Yeh
H.C., Puleo C.M., Lim T.C., Lillehoj P.B., Ho Y.P., Liu K., and Wang T.H.,
"Evaluation of Doxorubicin as Inhibitor of Sp1-DNA Complex by Fluorescence
Correlation Spectroscopy on a Microfluidic Chip", The Biomedical
Engineering Society Annual Meeting (BMES2006), Chicago, USA, Oct. 11-14
(2006)
- Puleo,
C.M., Yeh H.C., Ho Y.P., Lillehoj P., Shih I.M., and Wang T.H., "Assessment
of Allelic Imbalance Using Microfluidic
Enabled Single Molecule PCR", The Biomedical Engineering Society
Annual Meeting (BMES2006), Chicago, USA, Oct. 11-14 (2006)
- Thompson
R., Lillehoj P., Cionea C., and Hemker K., “Determining the mechanical
properties of bond coats with microsample
testing”, ONR/NSF Workshop on Thermal Barrier Coatings, Santa Barbara, CA,
2005 (Poster).
- Lillehoj
P., Hemker K., “Development of Strain Measurement Techniques in Microsample
Testing”. Poster Presentation for Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards,
Contact Info
Mailing Address:
15-155 Engineering IV
420 Westwood Plaza
Phone:310-825-9540
Fax:310-825-1350
Email: plillehoj@ucla.edu