Cullen Buie

Education

Buie's passions changed during high school when he attended an engineering camp that gave him the opportunity to receive college credits and scholarships.^[1] This led him to study mechanical engineering at Ohio State University, receiving his Bachelors of Science in 2003.^[2] He then went on to earn a Master of Science (M.S.) in 2005 at Stanford University, as well as his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in 2009 in mechanical engineering.^[1] At Stanford, he was a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow, working under Juan Santiago.^[3] While working towards his Ph.D, Buie worked on microfluidic electro-osmotic pumps for fuel cells at Stanford.

Career

After graduating Stanford in 2009, Buie began teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2010.^[3] During his teaching career, Buie had also worked on numerous of research labs. In 2010, he worked on microbial fuel cells at UC Berkeley. In 2012, he was working alongside a team in Australia to test the effectiveness of bacteria in these microbial fuel cells.^[1] Buie is the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and leads the Laboratory for Energy and Microsystems Innovation (LEMI).^[3]

Cullen Buie is a co-founder of a startup called Kytopen, which has created a technology called Flowfect. This new technology gives scientists a way to mass-produce genetically engineered cells as it opens the pores of cells to deliver genetic material.^[3][4]