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

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

Method for Controlled Isotropic Shrinking of Hydrogel Substrates Ensuring Nano Precision and Accuracy of Internal 3D Structures

Technology / Case number: #25843HMJ
Peter So / Takahiro Nambara / Quansan Yang / Yuichiro Kunai / Edward Stuart Boyden
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials
Impact Areas: Connected World
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A Method for Fabrication of 3D Multimaterial Nanostructures and its use Thereof

Technology / Case number: #25087MH
Peter So / Quansan Yang / Yi Cui / Daniel Oran / Edward Stuart Boyden
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Industrial Engineering & Automation
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3D Topological Nanofabrication in Hydrogel Scaffold

Technology / Case number: #25838HMJ
Peter So / Takahiro Nambara / Quansan Yang / Yuichiro Kunai / Edward Stuart Boyden
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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High Sensitivity Temporal Focusing Widefield Multiphoton Endoscope Capable of Deep Imaging

Technology / Case number: #14669JDE
Peter So / Jagath Rajapakse / Hanry Yu / Vijay Raj Singh / Heejin Choi / Yan Seng Elijah Yew / Daekeun Kim / Colin Sheppard
Technology Areas: Electronics & Photonics / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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Overcoming Emission Photon Scattering in Wide-Field Microscopy

Technology / Case number: #20164P
Peter So / Dushan Wadduwage / Balpreet Ahluwalia / Kalen Berry / Yi Xue / Jong Kang Park / Christopher Rowlands / Elly Nedivi
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Subcutaneous Fat Thickness Measurement by Raman Spectroscopy

Technology / Case number: #21761J
Peter So / Hyung Min Kim / Jeon Woong Kang
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Electronics & Photonics
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Phase Cancellation Microscopy Setup

Technology / Case number: #22134
Peter So / Dominika Lyzwa / Dushan Wadduwage / Zahid Yaqoob / Vijay Raj Singh
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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