Amos Chungwon Lee

Korea Meteorological Administration, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Amos Chungwon Lee is a rising leader in the intersection of micro-robotics and high-throughput biomedical engineering. His research focuses on developing intuitive, accessible fabrication methods for soft robotics and innovative platforms for drug screening. Lee’s most notable contribution is the invention of the "pen-drawn Marangoni swimmer" (2023, 35 citations), a groundbreaking approach that transforms simple pen-and-ink drawings into functional, programmable micro-swimmers. By leveraging the Marangoni effect, these devices can perform complex tasks without traditional robotic components, democratizing robot construction for researchers and educators. In parallel, Lee co-developed a "One-Step Generation of a Drug-Releasing Hydrogel Microarray-On-A-Chip" (2019), a high-throughput screening platform that eliminates the need for robotic pipetting, enabling large-scale sequential drug combination screening. This work, published in *Advanced Science*, dramatically lowers the barrier to sophisticated drug discovery. With his creative fusion of art, engineering, and biology, Lee is pioneering accessible technologies that empower general researchers to conduct advanced robotics and pharmaceutical research.