Haixia Yu received her Ph.D. degree in 2011 from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. From 2008 to 2010, she was a joint PhD student at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Currently, she is an associate professor in the School of Precision Instruments and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University. Her research interests focus on biomicrofluidics, optofluidics, and biomedical micro-sensors.