Peter So
Professor, Mechanical & Bio Eng
Department
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Technology Areas
Biotechnology: Biomedical Devices & Systems, Sensors & Monitoring / Sensing & Imaging: Imaging, Optical Sensing, Chemical & Radiation Sensing / Electronics & Photonics: Lasers, Photonics / Chemicals & Materials: Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials, Composites / Industrial Engineering & Automation: Manufacturing & Equipment / Biomaterials & Bioelectronics: Health Monitoring / Diagnostics: Assays / Drug Discovery and Research Tools: Cell Interrogation
Impact Areas
Background and Education
Professor So holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College and completed his PhD in Physics at Princeton University. He continued his postdoctoral research at the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Peter So joined MIT as Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1996. Since 2000 he has also served as Associate Director of the Whitehead-MIT Bioimaging center.
Technologies
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