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Dr. Gau is a recognized international expert on bioMEMS, nanotechnology and microfluidics. He gained extensive high-volume, low-cost manufacturing, and product development experience while he worked for DYNA Image and United Microelectronics Corporation, the second largest integrated circuit foundry in the world. At UMC, Dr. Gau was a Project Leader in charge of managing numerous yield improvement projects and won the 1995 UMC Outstanding Engineer Award. Dr. Gau earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tamkang University in Taiwan, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA, and was the recipient of the first Ph.D. awarded by UCLA in Biomedical Engineering. His Ph.D. simultaneously earned him UCLA's Outstanding Graduate Student and Outstanding Ph.D. awards. Dr. Gau recently received UCLA's prestigious Distinguished Young Alumnus Award. | 