Hardware/Software Co-Design and Optimization for Cyberphysical Integration in Digital Microfluidic Biochips

Introduction.- Error-Recovery in Cyberphysical Biochips.- Real-Time Error Recovery Using a Compact Dictionary.- Biochemistry Synthesis under Completion-Time Uncertainties in Fluidic Operations.- Optimization of On-Chip Polymerase Chain Reaction.- Pin-Count Minimization for Application-Independent Chips.- Pro-Limited Cyberphysical Microfluidic Biochip.- Conclusions.

Yan Luo received the Bachelor degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 2010, and the Master and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University in North Carolina, in 2012 and 2013, respectively. Dr. Luo's research interests include hardware/software co-design for digital microfluidic system, engineering data analysis and design/implementation of high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of engineering data. She is now working as a senior engineer at Oracle Inc., Santa Clara, CA. Dr. Luo has published 10 papers in refereed journals and conferences and authored one book chapter. Dr. Luo was invited as technique committee members and reviewers for more than 20 international conferences and journals.

Krishnendu Chakrabarty is the William H. Younger Distinguished Chair Professor of Engineering in the Department of Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at Duke University. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Early Faculty (CAREER) award, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award, the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, and 10 best paper awards at major IEEE conferences. Prof. Chakrabarty's current research projects include: testing and design-for-testability of integrated circuits; digital microfluidics, biochips, and cyberphysical systems; optimization of digital print and enterprise systems. He is a Fellow of ACM, a Fellow of IEEE, and a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society.

Tsung-Yi Ho received his Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, in 2005. Since 2007, he has been with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include design automation for microfluidic biochips and nanometer integrated circuits. He has