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Prof Chin Lip Ket is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof Chin received his PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From 2018 to 2022, he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to joining PoyU, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at The City University of Hong Kong from 2022 to 2025.

Prof Chin is an expert in microelectronics and bioelectronics. He applied silicon microelectronics and nanofabrication for integrated photonic devices innovations, including tunable lasers, optomechanical devices, Fourier transform spectrometers, etc. Also, he employed bioelectronic chip technology with silicon semiconductors for biomedical applications, such as tunable bioelectronics devices (microlenses, gratings, refractometers, Fabry-Pérot resonator, etc.), biosensors, bacteria sensors, bacteria and virus optical nano-tweezers, etc.

Prof Chin has published over 70 papers (citation > 4000+) in top-tier journals, including Advanced Materials, Science Translational Medicine, Advanced Science, Nature Communications, ACS Nano, npj Quantum Information, etc.

• Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronic Engineering), Nanyang Technological University
• Doctor of Philosophy, Nanyang Technological University