When Light meets Cells

Lip Ket Chin

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

City University of Hong Kong

lkchin at cityu dot edu dot hk

Lip Ket Chin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. Before he joined CityU, he was a Senior Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; as well as a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Center for System Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital (USA). He received the B.Eng & Ph.D from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

His research interests include: nanophotonics, nanoplasmonics, optofluidics, biosensors and biomedical instrumentation, translational research, etc.

Education

PhD School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Thesis: Single cell refractive index measurement via Lab-on-a-chip system

BEng School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Experience

2022 - Present Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

2018 - 2022 Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School 

   & Center for System Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

2014 - 2022 Senior Research Fellow, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

   Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2013 - 2014 Research Scientist, Water Optics Technology, Singapore

2011 - 2013 Research Fellow, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering 

   Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

News and Updates

Awarded GRF/ECS 2024-2025 

Project Title: Nanophotonic metasurface biosensing chip for fluorescence imaging

Thank you, Yubin, for his hard work in preparing the data of the proposal!


Updated: 30 Aug 2024