Biography
Kevin Tsia received his Ph.D. degree at the Electrical Engineering Department at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2009. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Program Director of the Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of Hong Kong. His research interest covers a broad range of subject matters including ultra-fast optical imaging for imaging flow cytometry and cell-based assay high-speed in-vivo brain imaging computational approaches for single-cell analysis. He is currently the HK Research Grants Council (RGC) Research Fellow (2020). He received Early Career Award 2012-2013 by RGC in Hong Kong. He also received the Outstanding Young Research Award 2015 at HKU as well as 14th Chinese Science and Technology Award for Young Scientists in 2016. His recent research on ultrafast optofluidic imaging technologies dubbed “ATOM” and “FACED” have also been covered by media and scientific magazines. He is author or coauthor of over 200 journal publications conference papers and book chapters. He holds 4 granted and 4 pending US patents on ultrafast optical imaging technologies. He is a co-founder of start-up company commercializing the high speed microscopy technology for cancer screening and treatment monitoring applications.
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Selected Publications
- J. Wu, N. Ji & Kevin K. Tsia, Speed scaling in multiphoton fluorescence microscopy. Nature Photonics. 15, 800–812 (2021).
- Stassen, S.V., Yip, G.G.K., Wong, K.K.Y., Joshua W. K. Ho & Kevin K. Tsia, “Generalized and scalable trajectory inference in single-cell omics data with VIA” Nature Communications 12, 5528 (2021).
- Queenie T. K. Lai, Gwinky G. K. Yip, Jianglai Wu, Justin S. J. Wong, Michelle C. K. Lo, Kelvin C. M. Lee, Tony T. H. D. Le, Hayden K. H. So, Na Ji & Kevin K. Tsia, “High-speed laser-scanning biological microscopy using FACED,” Nature Protocols 16, 4227–4264 (2021).
- Gwinky G. K. Yip, Michelle C. K. Lo, Wenwei Yan, Kelvin C. M. Lee, Queenie T. K. Lai, Kenneth K. Y. Wong, and Kevin K. Tsia , “Multimodal FACED imaging for large-scale single-cell morphological profiling”, APL Photonics 6, 070801 (2021)
- Dickson M. D. Siu, Kelvin C. M. Lee, Michelle C. K. Lo, Shobana V. Stassen, Iris Z. Q. Zhang, Hayden K. H. So, Godfrey C. F. Chan, Kathryn S. E. Cheah, Kenneth K. Y. Wong, Michael K. Y. Hsin, James C. M. Ho, and Kevin K. Tsia, “Deep-learning-assisted biophysical imaging cytometry at massive throughput delineates cell population heterogeneity,” Lab on a Chip, 20, 3696 – 3708 (2020). (Front cover in Oct 2020 issue).