Dr. Kevin K. Tsia received the B.E. (1st class honor) and M.Phil. degrees in Electronic & Computer Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in 2003 and 2005, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree at the Electrical Engineering Department, at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 2009. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and the Medical Engineering Program, at the University of Hong Kong.
His research interests covers a broad range of subject matters, including silicon photonics for optical interconnect applications, ultra-fast real-time spectroscopy and microscopy for biomedical applications such as flow cytometry; and endoscopic laser microsurgery. His researches, such as energy harvesting in silicon photonics and the World’s fastest barcode reader and optical imaging system, have attracted worldwide press coverage and featured in many prestigious science and technology review magazines such as MIT Technology Review, EE Times and Science News. Dr. Tsia was the recipient of a fellowship by the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) from 2005 to 2006. He also received the 2009 Harry M. Showman Prize from Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA. He is author or coauthor of over 30 journal, conference papers and book chapters. He is also the reviewer for Optics Letters, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Optics Express, and Applied Optics.
Awardees | Award Date | Honours / Awards / Prizes | Category |
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2012-12-01 | Early Career Award 2012: Hong Kong RGC | Research Achievement | |
2015-05-01 | Summa Cum Laude Merit Award "Frequency Specific Optogenetic Recruitment of Evoked Responses in the Somatosensory Thalamocortical Circuit": International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) | Research Achievement | |
2015-05-01 | Summa Cum Laude Merit Award "Intrahippocampal and Hippocampal-Cortical Interactions Driven by Frequency Specific Optogenetic Stimulation": International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) | Research Achievement | |
2020-01-01 | RGC Research Fellow 2020 | Research Achievement | |
2016-05-01 | Outstanding Young Research Award 2015: HKU | Research Achievement | |
2018-02-01 | 2018 SLAS Innovation Award Finalists: Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) | Research Achievement | |
2017-04-01 | Chinese Science and Technology Award for Young Scientists (2016) | Research Achievement |
Term Period | Position | Professional Societies |
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01-2018 | Chairman | IEEE Photonics Society, Hong Kong Chapter |
09/2022 | Senior | Optica |
01/2020 | Founding Member | The Young Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong |
09/2022 | Senior Member | SPIE |
06/2019 | Founding Member | The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences |
09/2009 | Member | IEEE |
09/2019 | Honorary Advisor | Hong Kong Medical and Healthcare Device Industries Association |
Area of Expertise (EN) | Area of Expertise (ZH) |
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Photonics | 光學 |
Optical microscopy for biomedicine | 光學顯微鏡(生物醫學) |
Fiber-optics | 光纖技術 |
Biophotonics | 生物光學 |
Biomedical engineering | 生物醫學工程 |
Spoken Language(s) (EN) | Spoken Language(s) (ZH) |
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English, Cantonese, Putonghua | 英語、粵語、普通話 |
Written Language(s) (EN) | Written Language(s) (ZH) |
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English, Chinese | 英文、中文 |