He and his team at Stanford University have developed a synchronous computer that operates using the physics of moving water droplets.

[3] His work focuses on frugal innovation that makes medicine, computing and microscopy accessible to more people across the world.

[7] A Foldscope is an optical microscope that can be assembled from simple components, including a sheet of paper and a lens.

It is part of the "frugal science" movement, which aims to make cheap and easy tools available for scientific use in the developing world.

The Paperfuge can be used to separate Plasma and RBC for rapid Malaria diagnosis in remote areas.