Research & software

Methods that connect matter, signal, and decision.

Peer-reviewed work and open engineering across light-responsive materials, portable gas analysis, metal-oxide sensors, deformability cytometry, and scientific machine vision.

Publications

Six papers, one connected programme.

One journal article and five conference papers, ordered with the journal work first and then by year.

  1. 2025 · Journal article · Advanced Materials 37, 2313935

    Light-Responsive Materials in Droplet Manipulation for Biochemical Applications

    Guangyao Cheng, Chit Yau Kuan, Kuan Wen Lou, and Yi-Ping Ho

  2. 2026 · Conference paper · IEEE NEMS, Chengdu, China

    Gas Chromatography System for Metal Oxide Gas Sensor to Enhance Gas Species Selectivity

    Kuan-Wen Lou, Guangyao Cheng, Qinru Xiao, and Yi-Ping Ho

  3. 2025 · Conference paper · IEEE-NANOMED, Hong Kong

    Autoencoder-Fine-Tuned LSTM for Improved Prediction of CO Concentration in Temperature-Modulated Metal-Oxide Sensor Arrays

    Kuan Wen Lou and Yi-Ping Ho

  4. 2025 · Conference paper · MicroTAS, Adelaide, Australia

    Imaging Focus Control via Ring-Width Quantification Enables Standardized Mechanical Phenotyping in Real-Time Deformability Cytometry

    Guangyao Cheng, Kuan Wen Lou, Qinru Xiao, and Yi-Ping Ho

  5. 2024 · Conference paper · IEEE NEMS, Kyoto, Japan

    Minimal Flame Spray Pyrolysis (mFP) — One-Step Synthesis of Nanoscale Metal Oxide Material

    Kuan-Wen Lou, Chun-Lung Ho, and Yi-Ping Ho

  6. 2023 · Conference paper · IEEE-NANOMED, Okinawa, Japan

    Gas Chromatography System with a Modular Gas Sensor for the Regeneration of Sensor Sensitivity

    Kuan-Wen Lou, Chun-Lung Ho, and Yi-Ping Ho

Patents

Five families and applications.

Gas-analysis inventions in Hong Kong and a US provisional filing for quantitative focus control in deformability cytometry.

  • 2026 · United States provisional application

    Quantitative Focus Control Method for Deformability Cytometry Based on Ring Width Quantification

    Application 63/977,364 · Filed 6 February 2026

  • 2023 · Hong Kong short-term patent

    A Breath Analyser Having Reduced Background Nitrogen

    Application 32023069933.4 · HK30080846 · Registry details recorded in institutional project CV; review before external filing

  • 2023 · Hong Kong short-term patent

    A Breath Analyser

    Application 32022065658.3 · HK30080843 · Granted

  • 2023 · Hong Kong short-term patent

    A Novel Gas Sensor

    Application 32022051430.3 · HK30083430 · Granted

  • 2023 · Hong Kong short-term patent

    A Metal Oxide Sensor

    Application 32022054982.0 · HK30083812 · Granted

Open engineering

Scientific software as research infrastructure.

Selected public, original repositories. Each addresses a concrete experimental bottleneck: acquisition, preparation, training, inference, or analysis.

C++ · Qt · CMake · OpenCV

MIB Studio Qt

A scientific imaging application for acquisition, recording, review, and analysis, with reproducible release tooling and operator documentation.

Repository

Python · YOLO · SAM · Bokeh

YOLO–SAM Cytometry Pipeline

Cell-detection and segmentation workflows that turn microscopy images into masks, morphology metrics, and interactive analysis.

Repository

Python · PyTorch · MLflow

YOLO–SAM Training

Reproducible training utilities for YOLO and Segment Anything models used in cytometry applications.

Repository

Python · Physical chemistry

Headspace VOC

Utilities for preparing and calculating headspace volatile-organic-compound concentrations for gas-sensor experiments.

Repository

C · ESP32 · Embedded sensing

M5 Gas Platform

An embedded acquisition platform for modular gas-sensor experiments and buffered data capture.

Repository