Mingming Wu
Professor, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Mingming Wu is a Professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering. She was drawn to the field of biological engineering by her admiration of the exquisite micro- and nano-scale machinery found in the natural world. She leads the Biofluidics Lab, which develops micro- and nano-scale technologies for solving contemporary biological, medical, and environmental problems. Her lab gains inspiration by exploring how tiny cells (often 1/10th of the width of a hair) move within a given microenvironment. Her lab motto is to see the unseeable and to measure the unmeasurable, all though the development of new technologies.
Courses Taught
- BEE 4500 Bioinstrumentation
- BEE 4550/6550 Biologically Inspired Microsystems Engineering
Contact Information
306 Riley Robb Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
mw272 [at] cornell.edu
Mingming in the news

News
Cornell researchers created cell-size robots that can be powered and steered by ultrasound waves. Despite their tiny size, these micro-robotic swimmers could be a formidable new tool for targeted drug delivery.
- Biological and Environmental Engineering
- Biology
- Health + Nutrition

FutureCast
In the search for more sustainable energy technologies, many of the solutions humans are turning to – rechargeable batteries, massive wind turbines, electric cars, LED lighting – rely on what are known as rare-earth elements. There are 17 rare...
- Biological and Environmental Engineering
- Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Energy