Bumsoo Han is Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering and Phil & Ann Sharp Scholar in Cancer Research. He is also Biohub Investigator of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he has been Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical engineering at Purdue University. He was also the Program Leader of the Drug Delivery and Molecular Sensing Program of the NCI-designated Purdue Institute for Cancer Research. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and his MS and BS from Seoul National University in Korea. After his PhD, he was a Postdoc Fellow in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He received US DOD Postdoctoral Award for Breast Cancer Research, NSF CAREER Award, US AFOSR Faculty Fellowship (Predictive Toxicology), and Richard Skalak Best Paper Award from the ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. In addition, he is a Fellow of ASME.

Here are his brief CV, his publications in PubMed, and his Academic Genealogy.