Amy Shen

Amy Q. Shen is Provost and Professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Japan, where she leads the Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit. She received her Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University. Before joining OIST, she was a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington. Her research integrates microfluidics, soft matter, nanomaterials, and molecular recognition to develop functional platforms for sensing, diagnostics, and biotechnology. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, and Society of Rheology, and was named to Forbes JAPAN’s “Women in Tech 30” in 2026.

Presentation title: microfluidic technologies for biosensing, environmental monitoring, and diagnostics