Rate My Professor Haim Bau

Bau's research specializations include fluid mechanics, heat transfer, electrokinetics, microfluidics, point-of-care diagnostics, and lab-on-a-chip systems. His work focuses on micro- and nano-scale fluidics for applications in biology and medicine, including portable analyzers and diagnostic platforms that integrate mechanics, electronics, and biology. He directs the Micro and Nano Fluidics Laboratory, pioneering technologies for liquid and particle manipulation, nucleic acid quantification, and rapid pathogen detection. Bau's scholarship has garnered over 20,000 citations according to Google Scholar. Notable publications include "Liquid transport in micron and submicron channels" (Pfahler, Harley, Bau, Zemel, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 1990); "Nuclemeter: A Reaction-Diffusion Based Method for Quantifying Nucleic Acids" (2014); "A Portable Analyzer for Pouch-Actuated, Immunoassay Cassettes" (2011); and "A Single and Two-Stage, Closed-Tube, Molecular Test for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)" (Song et al., 2020). He holds numerous patents related to diagnostic devices. Major awards include election as a 2025 National Academy of Inventors Fellow, the 2015 Penn One Health Award (with Changchun Liu), and the 2020 QED Proof-of-Concept Program award. Bau's innovations have significantly impacted biomedical engineering and diagnostics.