LEARNING TO ENGINEER INTELLIGENT LIVING SYSTEMS
Sam Oliveira, PhD
Samuel M. D. Oliveira, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nanoengineering at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. His training spans bioengineering and computational biology at Tampere University in Finland and postdoctoral research in microfluidics, automation, and academic biofoundry systems at Boston University, where he also served as a Research Assistant Professor and Senior Manager of the DAMP Lab Microfluidics Facility.
The Oliveira Lab develops AI-enabled, closed-loop platforms for studying and engineering living systems. The team combines synthetic biology, long-term live-cell imaging, microfluidics, hardware and software automation, computer vision, machine learning, dynamical modeling, and digital twins to generate controlled spatial and temporal data, select informative experiments, and guide microbial communities toward desired behaviors.
Research applications include synthetic microbial communities, biosensors, tissue engineering and organ-on-a-chip systems, autonomous biomanufacturing, and environmental and agricultural biotechnology. Current support includes NSF Collaborative Research Award, a DARPA Young Faculty Award, a subsequent DARPA Biological Technologies Office Director’s Nomination Fellowship, and a North Carolina Collaboratory Research Award.
Dr. Oliveira is active in the Engineering Biology Research Consortium, the Society for Biological Engineering, iGEM, and STEM outreach programs for high-school and undergraduate students. He is also a co-founder of Doroth, an AgTech company developing DNA-based sensors, microfluidics, and automation for disease monitoring in agriculture.
OFFICE 2907 E GATE CITY BLVD, Room 208-G
Greensboro, NC 27401
EMAIL smdoliveira@ncat.edu
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