Kazunori Hoshino

Associate Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

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Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo
• M.S., Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo

Research Focus

• Nano and micro electromechanical systems (NEMS/MEMS)
• Microfluidic systems for disease detection and analysis
• Nano and micro scale mechanical sensing and optical imaging
• Microscale robotics for tissue engineering

Awards

• NSF-CCSS (Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems) award
• NEDO (the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, Japan) Industrial Technology Research Grant Program
• MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan) Grant for Young Scientists
• MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan) Grant for Innovative Researches
• JSPS (the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) grant for Young Investigators

Publications

Soliman Alhudaithy, Sama Abdulmalik, Sangamesh G. Kumbar, and Kazunori Hoshino, “Design, Fabrication, and Validation of a Petri Dish-Compatible PDMS Bioreactor for the Tensile Stimulation and Characterization of Microtissues,” Micromachines 11(10), 892, 2020.

Mingze Sun, Jinhyung Lee, Yupeng Chen, Kazunori Hoshino, “Studies of nanoparticle delivery with in vitro bio-engineered microtissues,” Bioactive Materials, 5, 924-937, 2020.

Ariane Garrett, Garrett J. Soler, Michael L. Diluna, Ryan A. Grant, Hitten P. Zaveri, and Kazunori Hoshino, “A Passive, Biocompatible Microfluidic Flow Sensor to Assess Flows in a Cerebral Spinal Fluid Shunt,” Sensors and Actuators A, 312, 112110, 2020.

Pengming Song, Ruihai Wang, Jiakai Zhu, Tianbo Wang, Zichao Bian, Zibang Zhang, Kazunori Hoshino, Michael Murphy, Shaowei Jiang, Chengfei Guo, and Guoan Zheng, “Super-resolved multispectral lensless microscopy via angle-tilted, wavelength-multiplexed ptychographic modulation,” Optics Letters, 45 (13), 3486-3489, 2020.

Zichao, Bian, Shaowei, Jiang, Pengming, Song, He Zhang, Pouria, Hoveida, Kazunori Hoshino, and Guoan Zheng, “Ptychographic modulation engine (PME): a low-cost DIY microscope add-on for coherent super-resolution imaging,” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 53, 014005, 2019.

Alexander Almeida, George Andrews, Devina Jaiswal, and Kazunori Hoshino, “The Actuation Mechanism of 3D Printed Flexure-Based Robotic Microtweezers,” Micromachines 10(7), 470, 2019.

Pengming Song, Shaowei Jiang, He Zhang, Zichao Bian, Chengfei Guo, Kazunori Hoshino, and Guoan Zheng, “Super-resolution microscopy via ptychographic structured modulation of a diffuser,” Optics Letters 44(15), 3645-3648, 2019.

Devina Jaiswal, Zoe Moscato, Yuji Tomizawa, Kevin P. Claffey, and Kazunori Hoshino, “Elastography of multicellular spheroids using 3D light microscopy,” Biomedical Optics Express 10(5), 2409-2418, 2019.

Yuji Tomizawa, Krishna Dixit, David Daggett, and Kazunori Hoshino, “Biocompatible Cantilevers for Mechanical Characterization of Zebrafish Embryos using Image Analysis,” Sensors 19(7), 1506, 2019.

Shaowei Jiang, Jun Liao, Zichao Bian, Pengming Song, Garrett Soler, Kazunori Hoshino, and Guoan Zheng, “Axially shifted pattern illumination for macroscale turbidity suppression and virtual volumetric confocal imaging without axial scanning,” Optics letters 44(4), 811-814, 2019.

Garrett J. Soler, Mengdi Bao, Devina Jaiswal, Hitten P. Zaveri, Michael L. DiLuna, Ryan A. Grant, and Kazunori Hoshino, “A Review of Cerebral Shunts, Current Technologies and Future Endeavors,” Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 91(3): 313–321, 2018.

Devina Jaiswal, Min D. Tang-Schomer, Disha Sood, David L. Kaplan, and Kazunori Hoshino, “Non-destructive, Label-free Characterization of Mechanical Micro-heterogeneity in Biomimetic Materials,” ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 4(9), 3259-3267, 2018.

Devina Jaiswal, Norah Cowley, Zichao Bian, Guoan Zheng, Kevin P. Claffey and Kazunori Hoshino, “Stiffness Analysis of 3D Spheroids using Microtweezers,” PLoS ONE 12(11): e0188346.

Devina Jaiswal, Armin Tahmasbi Rad, Mu-Ping Nieh, Kevin P. Claffey, and Kazunori Hoshino, “Micromagnetic Cancer Cell Immobilization and Release for Real-Time Single Cell Analysis.” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 427, 7-13, 2017.

Hasan S. Fiaz, Casey R. Settle, and Kazunori Hoshino, “Metal additive manufacturing for microelectromechanical systems: Titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V)-based nanopositioning flexure fabricated by electron beam melting.” Sensors and Actuators A, 249, 284-293, 2016.

Peng Chen, Yu-Yen Huang, Kazunori Hoshino, and Xiaojing Zhang,” Microscale Magnetic Field Modulation for Enhanced Capture and Distribution of Rare Circulating Tumor Cells,” Scientific Reports, 5, 8745, 2015.