Lip Ket Chin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before he joined PolyU, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong (2022 - 2024); a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Center for System Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States (2018 - 2022). He received the B.Eng & Ph.D from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

His research interests include: nanophotonics, nanoplasmonics, 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

Jan 2025 - Present Associate Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR

2022 - Jan 2025 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

Awarded GRF 2025-2026 

Project Title: An Automated and Ultra-sensitive Liquid Biopsy Molecular Profiler based on Plasmonic and Digital Microfluidic Technologies

New PhD candidate will join the group on Sep to kick start the project!

Updated: 27 Jun 2025

New Publication in Sensors

Our work on a soft capacitive pressure sensor is published in Sensors, in collaboration with Guangzhou University. Do check it out!

M. Zhang, C. Qiu, J. Wang, X. Huang, W. Zhang, L. K. Chin, W. Shang, “A soft capacitive pressure sensor based on a liquid dielectric layer,” Sensors.

Link

Updated: 25 Apr 2025

New Adventure at PolyU

I have joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR. New Adventure for the New Year! 

Recruiting new PhD Candidates. Please contact me if you are interested.

Updated: 14 Jan 2025

Awarded 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