Ye Ai received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2005 and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Old Dominion University in 2011. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was a Visiting Professor with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from August 2014 to July 2015. He has been an Assistant Professor with the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) since 2013. His research interest focuses on developing novel microfluidic technologies for particle/cell manipulation and single cell analysis using image processing.