Mingming Wu


Mingming Wu is a Chinese-born scientist. She is a professor at Cornell University within the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering.

Academic Career

She earned a bachelor's of science degree from Nanjing University in 1984, and completed a doctorate from Ohio State University in 1992. Wu split her post doctoral research between École Polytechnique and the University of California, Santa Barbara, before beginning her teaching career at Occidental College. She joined the Cornell University faculty in 2003. Wu was named a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2016.

Research

Wu's focuses on discovering fundamental principles with which nature use to interact with the environment, in particular, how physical forces regulate cell migration. She is known for developing micro-scale tools controlling cellular environment, and use them to solve contemporary problems in health and environment. A summary of her recent work can be found .