The Diamond Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Prof. Zhiqin Chu
Associate Professor (Tenured)
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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Joint Appointment with School of Biomedical Sciences
Joint Appointment with Schoolf of Biomedical Engineering
Prof. Chu earned his B.S. in Physics from Northwest University (China) in 2008 and his Ph.D. in Physics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012. He conducted his postdoctoral research at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, from 2014 to 2016. In November 2018, he joined The University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering with a joint appointment in the School of Biomedical Sciences, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in November 2024. His work has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the Top 10 Winners of the Falling Walls Breakthrough in the Engineering & Technology category (2025), and a Gold Medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva (2024). He has been elected as a member of The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences since October 2025. Recently, he co-founded DiamNEX Ltd., a company dedicated to producing high-quality diamond membranes. His research focuses on CVD diamond, nanodiamonds, NV centers, quantum biosensing, and diamond semiconductors.
Ph.D., Department of Physics, The Chinese university of Hong Kong (2008-2012)
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B.S., Department of Physics, Northwest University (China) (2004-2008)
Visiting Scholars
Post-doctoral Scholars
Ph.D. in Chemistry, Free University of Berlin, Germany
M.S. in Chemical biology, Northwest A&F University, China
B.S. in Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, China
Email: houyong@eee.hku.hk; yong.hou@ABIC.HK
Yong Hou
Ph.D. in The University of Hong Kong
M.S. in University of Science and Technology of China
B.S. in China University of Petroleum
Feng Xu
Ph.D. in The University of Hong Kong
M.S. in Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
B.S. in Central South University
Tongtong Zhang
Ph.D. in The University of Hong Kong
M.S. in Harbin Institute of Technology
B.S. in China University of Mining and Technology
Jixiang Jing
Ph.D. in Institute of Optical Communication Materials and State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology, China
B.S. in Optical Information Science and Technology, South China University of Technology, China
Email: qtjoansherry@gmail.com;
tian.qiao@ABIC.HK
Tian Qiao
Ph.D. in Southern University of Science and Technology
B.S. in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Chunlin Song
Research Assistants
B.S. in Hong Kong Baptist University
Yip Tai Nam
Graduate Students
Ph.D. student, 2020
B.S. in Nanjing University
Lingzhi Wang
Ph.D. student, 2021
M.S. in Harbin Institute of Technology
B.S. in Yanshan University
Xiaoshuai An
Ph.D. student, 2022
B.S. in South China Normal University
Jiaqi Li
Ph.D. student, 2020
B.S. in Nanjing University
Linjie Ma
Ph.D. student, 2021
M.S. in Sun Yat-Sen University
B.S. in Northeastern University
Yayin Tan
Ph.D. student, 2023
M.S. in National University of Singapore
B.S. in Sungkyunkwan University
Luyao Zhang
Ph.D. student, 2021
M.S. in Harbin Institute of Technology
B.S. in Harbin Institute of Technology
Jiahua Zhang
Ph.D. student, 2022
B.S. in The University of Hong Kong
M.S. in The University of Hong Kong
Madhav
Ph.D. student, 2025
M.S. in Shenzhen University
B.S. in Shenzhen University
Huang Ruoyao
Ph.D. student, 2025
B.S. in Zhejiang University
