About

Chi Hwan Lee, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and the School of Mechanical Engineering, both at Purdue University, where he also serves as a primary faculty member in the Center for Implantable Devices, the Center for Scalable Manufacturing, the Birck Nanotechnology Center and the Mi-Bio Center.

He is a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Curasis (Lafayette, IN, US), which specialises in rehabilitation sensor patch products, and serves as a scientific advisor at Omniply (Montreal, Canada), which specialises in flexible electronics products. He earned a PhD in 2013 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University (Stanford, CA, US). His research focuses on development of sticker-like electronics (referred to as sticktronics) for various wearable biomedical applications.

He is an author or co-author of over 40 peer-reviewed publications and six US patents.