Tak Sing Wong

Molecular Mechanics Lab Member.

Photograph of Victor Tak Sing Wong

Vita

  Tak-Sing Wong was born in Hong Kong, China in 1981.  He received his bachelor of Engineering degree from the Department of Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering (now known as Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003 and he is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at UCLA under the guidance of Prof. Chih-Ming Ho.

  Tak-Sing was an undergraduate student researcher in Centre for Micro and Nano Systems at CUHK from 2001 to 2003, under the guidance of Prof. Wen J. Li.  Presently, he is a graduate student researcher affiliated with the NSF Center for Scalable and Integrated Nanomanufacturing (SINAM) and NIH Center for Cell Control (CCC), USA.  Back to his undergraduate study period, his work on carbon nanotube-based sensors has garnered awards in IEEE local (Hong Kong), regional (Asia-Pacific), and international student paper contests (IEEE Nano’03).  He is a recipient of Lucent Global Science Scholar Award in 2001 (awarded to 108 high school and college students worldwide in 2001) and Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship in 2007 (awarded to 30 Ph.D. students nationwide in 2007).  His current research interests include micro and nanomanufacturing, study of micro and nanoscale sciences, and complex systems.

 Research Experience

  • Complexity in Pattern Formation (In Progress)
  • Nanoscale Science
    • Study of Solid-Liquid Interactions under Sub-100nm Scale (8/2005 – 9/2006)
  • Nanofabrication
    • Crystallization in Nanoscale (In progress, coworkers: Robert Lam, 8/2006)
    • Top-down and Bottom-up Hybrid Nanoscale Self-Assembly Utilizing Muscle Protein Molecules (3/2004 – 8/2006, co-workers: Branden Brough and Daniel Garcia)
  • MEMS and Nano Devices
    • Ring Toss in Microscale (5/2005 – 7/2005)
    • Silicone Polymeric MEMS Sensors and Actuators (1/2004 – 12/2004, co-worker: Adam Huang)
    • Carbon Nanotube-based Thermal Sensors (7/2001 – 7/2003)
  • Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
    • Development of a Capillary Electrophoretic Microfluidic System (9/2003 – 3/2004)
    • Magnetic Particle-based Cell Separation Microfluidic System (7/2006 – 9/2006, lead investigator: Adam Lin)
    • AC Electrokinetic Manipulation of Sub-Micron Particles (7/2006 – 9/2006, lead investigators: Dan Garcia and Aleidy Silva)

Education

  • Ph.D. candidate (advanced to candidacy on 12/2004), Mechanical Engineering, University of California , Los Angeles (Expected Graduation Date: 5/2009)
    • Major Field: Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems/Nanotechnology
    • Minor Fields: Molecular Bioengineering and Material Science
  • B. Eng (2nd Upper Class Honor), Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong , (9/2000 - 5/2003).

Work Experience

Graduate Student Researcher (August 2003 -)
Molecular Mechanics Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles

Junior Research Assistant (June 2003 - July 2003)
Centre for Micro and Nano Systems, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Student Research Assistant (May 2001 - September 2002)
Centre for Micro and Nano Systems, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Student Research Assistant (Dec 2000 - April 2001)
Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Mathematics Tutor (February 2001 - May 2001)
S.K.H. Tsang Shiu Tim Secondary School

Patents

  1. "Micro/Nano Scale Patterning of Polymers Utilizing Photo-patternable Lift-off Chemical Resist Mold and Mechanical Polishing Techniques", US Patent Pending. Inventors: Tak Sing Wong and Adam Po-Hao Huang (2004)
  2. “A Particle-based Microfluidic Device for Providing High Magnetic Field Gradients”, US Patent Pending.  Inventors:  Adam Yuh Lin, Tak Sing Wong (2008)

 

Publications

Books and Chapters

  1. Wen J. Li, Ning Xi, Wai-Kung Fung, Tak Sing Wong, “Nanorobotics and Nanomanipulation”, in Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 7, H.S. Nalwa, Ed: American Scientific Publishers, 2004, pp. 351 – 365.

 

Journal Publications

  1. Tak Sing Wong, Adam Huang and Chih-Ming Ho, “Wetting Behaviors of Sub-100nm Hydrophilic Structures during Surface Dewetting”, submitted (2008).
  2. Tak Sing Wong, Branden Brough and Chih-Ming Ho, “Creation of Functional Micro and Nanodevices through Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches”, Molecular and Cellular Biomechanics, to appear, 2008 (invited paper).
  3. Tak Sing Wong, Branden Brough, Karen L. Christman, Christopher M. Kolodziej, Adam Huang, Robert Lam, Jeffrey G. Forbes, Kuan Wang, Heather D. Maynard, and Chih-Ming Ho, “Manufature of Nanoscale Structures through Integrated Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches”, IEEE Review on Advances in Micro, Nano and Molecular Systems, to appear, 2008.
  4. Tak Sing Wong, A. Senthil Kumar, and Chih-Ming Ho, “Surface Forces Modified by Engineered Micro/Nanostructures”, IEEE Review on Advances in Micro, Nano and Molecular Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 13, 2007 (invited paper).
  5. Yuh “Adam” Lin, Tak Sing Wong, Urvashi Bhardwaj, Jia-Ming Chen, Chih-Ming Ho, Edward McCabe, “Formation of High Electromagnetic Gradients through a Particle-based Microfluidic Approach”, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 17, pp. 1299 – 1306 (2007).
  6. Branden Brough, Karen L. Christman, Tak Sing Wong, Christopher M. Kolodziej, Jeffrey G. Forbes, Kuan Wang, Heather D. Maynard and Chih-Ming Ho, “Surface Initiated Actin Polymerization from Top-down Manufactured Nanopatterns”, Soft Matter, Vol. 3, pp. 541 – 546 (2007). (Selected as cover image article)
  7. Adam Huang, Victor T.S. Wong, and Chih-Ming Ho, “Silicone Polymer Chemical Vapor Sensors Fabricated by Direct Polymer Patterning on Substrate Technique (DDPOST)”, Sensors and Actuators B, Chemical, Vol. 116, pp. 2-10 (2006).
  8. King W.C. Lai, Carmen K.M. Fung, Victor T.S. Wong, Mandy L.Y. Sin, Wen J. Li and C.P. Kwong, “Development of an Automated Microspotting System for Rapid Dielectrophoretic Fabrication of Bundled Carbon Nanotube Sensors”, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 3, pp. 218-227 (2006).
  9. Carmen K.M. Fung, Victor T.S. Wong , Rosa H.M. Chan and Wen J. Li, “ Dielectrophoretic Batch Fabrication of Bundled Carbon Nanotube Thermal Sensors ”, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol 3., No.3, pp. 395 – 403 (2004).
  10. Victor T.S. Wong and Wen J. Li, “Dependence of AC Electrophoresis Carbon Nanotube Manipulation on Microelectrode Geometry”, International Journal of Non-linear Sciences and Numerical Simulation, Vol. 3, Nos. 3 – 4, pp. 769 -774 (2002).

 

Conference Publications

  1. Tak Sing Wong, Branden Brough, Karen L. Christman, Christopher M. Kolodziej, Adam Huang, Robert Lam, Jeffrey G. Forbes, Kuan Wang, Heather D. Maynard, and Chih-Ming Ho, “Manufacture of Nanoscale Structures through Integrated Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches”, in Proc. of IEEE 7th International Conference on Nanotechnology, pp. 126 – 130, Hong Kong SAR, August 2007.
  2. Adam Huang, Victor T.S. Wong, and Chih-Ming Ho, “Conductive Silicone Based MEMS Sensor and Actuator”, in Proc. of 13 th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems 2005 (Transducers’05), pp. 1406 - 1411, Seoul, Korea.
  3. Victor T.S. Wong , Adam Huang and Chih-Ming Ho, “Towards High Density Silicone Polymeric Chemical Vapor Sensor Arrays for Electronic Nose Applications”, in Proc. of 11th International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose 2005 (ISOEN’05), pp. 398 – 401, Barcelona , Spain .
  4. Adam Huang, Po-Jui Chen, Justin Boland, Daniel Alberer, Tak Sing Wong, H.Q. Yang, Yu-Chong Tai, and Chih-Ming Ho, "Liquid-Rotor Electret Power Generator Energized by a MEMS-based Pulsed Combustor",in Proceedings of PowerMEMS'04, pp. 171-174, Kyoto, Japan.
  5. Victor T.S. Wong , Adam Huang and Chih-Ming Ho, “SU-8 Lift-off Patterned Silicone Chemical Vapor Sensor Arrays”, in Proc. of 18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems 2005 (MEMS’05), pp. 754 – 757, Miami , USA .
  6. Victor T.S. Wong and Wen J. Li, “Bundled Carbon Nanotube as Electronic Circuit and Sensing Elements”, invited paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2003(ICRA’03), Vol. 3, pp. 3648 – 3653 (2003).
  7. Carmen K.M. Fung, Victor T.S. Wong and Wen J. Li, “Towards Batch Fabrication of Bundled Carbon Nanotube Thermal Sensors”, Proceedings of IEEE Third Conference on Nanotechnology 2003, Vol. 2, pp. 866 – 869 (2003).
  8. Victor T.S. Wong and Wen J. Li, "Bulk Carbon Nanotubes for Micro Anemometry", keynote paper, ASME Forum on MEMS for Fluid Measurements, Fluid Engineering Division Annual Summer Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 6-10, 2003.
  9. Victor T.S. Wong and Wen J. Li, “Bulk Carbon Nanotube as Thermal Sensing and Electronic Circuit Elements”, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 4, 844 – 847 (2003).
  10. Victor. T.S. Wong and Wen J. Li, “Bulk Carbon Nanotubes as Sensing Element for Temperature and Anemometry Micro Sensing”, Proceedings of 16 th Annual IEEE International Conference on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems 2003 (MEMS’03), pp. 41 – 44 (2003).

 

Conference/Workshop Presentations

  1. Tak Sing Wong, Branden Brough, Karen L. Christman, Christopher M. Kolodziej, Adam Huang, Robert Lam, Jeffery G. Forbes, Kuan Wang, Heather Maynard, and Chih-Ming Ho, “Manufacture of Nanoscale Structures through Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches”, Oral Presentation, IEEE 7th International Conference on Nanotechnology 2007, Hong Kong SAR, China, August 2 - 5, 2007.
  2. Tak Sing Wong and Chih-Ming Ho, “Development of Silicone Polymer Sensors and Actuators by Direct Polymer Patterning on Substrate Technique (DPPOST)”, Oral and Poster Presentation, 1st Nagoya University-UCLA International Symposium on Micro/Nano Mechatronics for Future Biomedicine,  Nagoya, Japan, March 25 – 27, 2007.
  3. Tak Sing Wong and Chih-Ming Ho, “From the Manipulation of Biological Entities to Single Molecule Detection”, Poster Presentation, 1st Nagoya University-UCLA International Symposium on Micro/Nano Mechatronics for Future Biomedicine, Nagoya, Japan, March 25 – 27, 2007.
  4. Branden Brough, Dan Garcia, Tak Sing Wong, and Chih-Ming Ho, "Specific Placement of Individual Molecular Targets", accepted, 2nd International Conference on Nanoscale Devices and System Integration (NDSI'05), Houston, Texas, USA
  5. Victor T.S. Wong, Adam Huang and Chih-Ming Ho, “Towards High Density Silicone Polymeric Chemical Vapor Sensor Arrays”, Poster Presentation, 11th International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose 2005, Barcelona, Spain (April 2005).
  6. Victor T.S. Wong, Adam Huang and Chih-Ming Ho, “SU-8 Lift-Off Patterned Silicone Chemical Vapor Sensor Arrays”, Poster Presentation, 18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems 2005 (MEMS’05), Miami, USA (Feb 2005).
  7. Victor T.S. Wong, “Bulk Carbon Nanotubes as Sensing Element for Temperature and Anemometry Micro Sensing”, Oral Presentation (Student Paper Contest), Material Science and Technology in Engineering Conference – Now, New and Next, Lantau Island, Hong Kong SAR, China (Jan 2003).
  8. Victor T.S. Wong and Wen J. Li, “Bulk Carbon Nanotubes as Sensing Element for Temperature and Anemometry Micro Sensing”, Poster Presentation, 16th Annual IEEE International Conference on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems 2003 (MEMS’03), Kyoto, Japan (Jan 2003).
  9. Victor T.S. Wong and Wen J. Li, “Dependence of AC Electrophoresis Carbon Nanotube Manipulation on Microelectrode Geometry”, Oral Presentation, International Conference on Micro and Nano Systems 2002, Kunming, China (August 2002).

 

Awards, Honors and Scholarships

  1. Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship 2007 – 2008 (30 Engineering PhD students were awarded nationwide in the year 2007) (June 2007)
  2. 2nd Prize, IEEE Region 10 (Asia-Pacific) Student Paper Contest 2003 for the paper titled "Bundled Carbon Nanotubes as Electronic Circuit and Sensing Element" (September 2003)
  3. Best Poster Paper Award (co-authored with Carmen K.M. Fung [1st author] and Wen J. Li), IEEE 3rd Annual International Conference on Nanotechnology 2003, San Francisco, USA, August 12-14, 2003, for the paper titled "Towards Batch Fabrication of Bundled Carbon Nanotube Thermal Sensors" (August 2003)
  4. Finalist (co-authored with Carmen K.M. Fung [1st author] and Wen J. Li), Best Student Paper Contest, IEEE 3rd Annual International Conference on Nanotechnology 2003, San Francisco, USA, August 12-14, 2003, for the paper titled "Towards Batch Fabrication of Bundled Carbon Nanotube Thermal Sensors" (August 2003)
  5. 1st Prize, Best Student Paper Award of IEEE Hong Kong Student Paper Contest 2002, Undergraduate Section for the paper titled "Batch Manipulation of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube by AC Electrophoresis and the Potential Applications of Carbon Nanotube for Shear Stress Sensing System" (February 2003)
  6. 1st Prize, Best Paper on Materials of HKIE Material Division 2002 for the paper titled "Bulk Carbon Nanotubes as Sensing Element for Temperature and Anemometry Micro Sensing" (January 2003)
  7. Lucent Global Science Scholars Award (108 students were awarded worldwide in the year 2001) (July 2001)
  8. Invited Participant, Lucent Global Science Scholars Summit 2001, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA (August 2001).

 

Contact Info

Mailing Address:
15-155 Engineering IV
420 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Phone:310-825-9540
Fax:310-825-1350
Email: tswong@ucla.edu

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