Keat Ghee Ong
Contact
- kgong@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2749
- M & M Building 309
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Graduate Program Director, Biomedical Engineering
Director, Biotechnology Research Center
- BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Kentucky
- MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Kentucky
- PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Kentucky
Biography
Keat Ghee Ong received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky in 1997, 1998, and 2000, respectively. He was a research associate in the Pennsylvania State University from 2001 to 2002, and the chief scientist in Sentech Corporation, State College, PA, in 2002-2004. He continued his research as the chief scientist in KMG2 Sensors Corporation in State College, PA, until 2006. Currently, he is an associate professor in the department of Biomedical Engineering at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI. His areas of expertise include implantable biosensors and biological sensing materials and devices. He is also working on magnetism, rf, and acoustic-based sensors, magnetoelastic materials, nanoporous metal oxides and carbon nanotubes, and measurement technique and instrument automation. Ong is an editor of Sensor Letters. He is the author of three book chapters, and over 70 publications in archival journals and conference proceedings, and multiple patents.
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Biomedical devices for human physiological measurements
- Biosensors for biotoxin and microbial detection
- Wireless implantable sensors
- Wireless sensor networks
- Magnetism and magnetic materials
