Principal Investigator

Renjie Zhou, Ph.D

Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Email: rjzhou[at]cuhk[dot]edu[dot]hk; Office Phone: (+852) 3943 0874; Fax: (+852) 3749 5898

Office Address: Room 1111, 11/F, William M. W. Mong Engineering Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N. T., Hong Kong SAR, China

Biography: My current work is focused on advancing label-free optical imaging techniques for various applications. I am interested in applying my methods for solving fundamental and practical problems, which often requires interdisciplinary collaborations. I obtained my doctoral degree from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2014. Before joining CUHK, I took postdoc training at the G. R. Harrison Spectroscopy Lab at MIT between 2014 to 2017. During 2023-2024, I served as the Assistant Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Engineering. Over the past decade, I have focused on developing optical imaging methods, including deriving physical models, building instruments, developing reconstruction algorithms, and demonstrating applications. I contributed to ~ 70 journal papers and ~ 60 conference proceedings.

Apart from research, I am very keen in promoting optical sciences and optical technologies to raise their awareness among the general public. I delivered ~ 40 invited/keynote conference talks and ~ 40 lectures/seminars/colloquiums. While I was a doctoral student at UIUC (2011-2014) and with the support from SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship (2012), I organized bi-weekly iOptics seminar series which fostered research interactions among graduate students, postdocs, and invited speakers; meanwhile, I strongly advocated interdisciplinary research, for which reason I was awarded a Beckman Institute Fellowship (2013-2014).

I am a Senior Member of Optica (formerly OSA), a Senior Member of SPIE, and a Regular Member of IEEE Photonics Society. I am currently serving as a Topical Editor of JOSA A and an Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. I served a three-year term on the SPIE Scholarship Committee. I am the treasurer of the IEEE Photonics Society Hong Kong Chapter. For more information about my professional activities, refer to my CV.