Invited Conference/Workshop Talks 

2025

42. R. Zhou*, “Interferometric Quantitative Phase Microscopy for Nanometrology Applications,” High-end Forum on Extreme Photonics Interference, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, 18 - 19 July 2025. (Invited Talk)

41. R. Zhou*, “Coherence-gated optical diffraction tomography for label-free volumetric imaging of cells in thick tissues,” 粤港澳大湾区生物材料与医疗器械前沿论坛暨暨南大学—香港中文大学生物医学工程联合论坛, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 4 July 2025. (Invited Talk)

40. R. Zhou*, “High-throughput optical diffraction tomography for large-scale 3D analysis of living cells,” World Photonics Conference - 14th Applied Optics and Photonics China (AOPC 2025), Beijing, China, 24 - 27 June 2025. (Invited Talk)

39. R. Zhou*, “Advancing Interferometric Quantitative Phase Microscopy towards Femtometer-level Measurement Accuracy,” Light Conference 2025, Changchun, Jilin, China, 10 - 12 June 2025. (Invited Talk)

38. R. Zhou*, “Coherence-gated optical diffraction tomography for label-free volumetric imaging of cells in thick tissues,” 中国细胞生物学学会2025年全国学术大会, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, 4 - 9 April 2025. (Invited Talk)

2024

37. R. Zhou*, “相干门控光学衍射层析显微：从单细胞到厚组织无标记体成像,” 第四届全国光子技术论坛（大湾区）, 国家自然科学基金委, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, 7 - 8 December 2024. (Invited Talk)

36. R. Zhou*, “Interferometric Quantitative Phase Microscopy (iQPM) for Nanometrology Applications,” Semiconductor Technology Forum, Shanghai, China, 29 - 30 November 2024. (Invited Talk)

35. R. Zhou*, “相干门控衍射层析显微：从单细胞到厚组织无标记体成像,” 中国仪器学会影像科学与工程分会2024学术年会暨学术报告会, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, 2 - 3 November 2024. (Invited Talk)

34. R. Zhou*, “Interferometric Quantitative Phase Microscopy for Nanometrology Applications,” PhotoniX Forum, Shanghai, China, 18 - 19 October 2024. (Invited Talk)

33. R. Zhou*, “Coherence-gated diffraction tomography: from label-free volumetric imaging of single cells to thick tissue,” The 4th International Computational Imaging Conference (CITA 2024), The Chinese Society of Optical Engineering (CSOE), Xiamen, Fujian, China, 20 - 22 September 2024. (Invited Talk)

32. R. Zhou*, “High-sensitivity Interferometric Quantitative Phase Microscopy for Nanometrology Applications,” 12th International Conference on Nanophotonics (ICNP 2024), Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, 10 - 11 September 2024. (Invited Talk)

31. R. Zhou*, “Coherence-gated diffraction tomography for label-free volumetric imaging of thick tissues,” 9th Optoelectronics Global Conference (OGC 2024), Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, 12 - 13 September 2024. (Invited Talk)

30. R. Zhou*, “Coherence-gated diffraction tomography: from label-free volumetric imaging of single cells to thick tissues,” The 4th Quantitative Phase Imaging Symposium, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, 23 August 2024. (Invited Talk)

29. R. Zhou*, “Speckle diffraction tomography: from label-free volumetric imaging of single cells to thick tissues,” World Photonics Conference - 13th Applied Optics and Photonics China (AOPC 2024), Chinese Society for Optical Engineering, Beijing, China, 23 - 26 July 2024. (Invited Talk)

28. R. Zhou*, “Speckle diffraction tomography for mapping nanoscale topographic features in thick tissues,” Light Conference 2024, Light Publishing Group, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP), Changchun, Jilin, China, 18 - 20 June 2024.  (Invited Talk)

27. R. Zhou*, “Recent Advances in Interferometric Quantitative Phase Microscopy (iQPM) and Applications in Material Metrology,” 中国仪器仪表学会集成电路测量仪器分会成立大会暨2024年学术研讨会, Wuhan, Hubei, China, 21 - 23 June 2024.  (Invited Talk)

26. R. Zhou*, “Recent Advances in Interferometric Quantitative Phase Microscopy,” The Optica Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging Topical Meeting (DH), OPTICA Society, Capaccio, Italy, 3 - 6 June 2024. (Invited Talk)

25. R. Zhou*, “Interferometric Quantitative Phase Microscopy for Nanometrology Applications,” The 1st International Conference on Optoelectronic Integration, Westlake University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, 12 - 15 May 2024. (Invited Talk)

24. R. Zhou*, “High spatiotemporal Resolution Interferometric Quantitative Phase Microscopy,” 2024 Conference on Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures (CISA), The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Boulder, CO, United States, 20 - 23 May 2024. (Keynote Talk)

23. R. Zhou*, “Pushing the speed and throughput limits in quantitative phase imaging,” Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures Workshop, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024), IEEE Signal Processing Society, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 14 - 19 April 2024. (Keynote Talk)

2023

22. R. Zhou*, “Recent Advances in Interferometric Quantitative Phase Microscopy,” the 3rd International Computational Imaging Conference (CITA 2024), The Chinese Society of Optical Engineering (CSOE), Beijing, China, 8 - 10 December 2023. (Invited Talk)

21. R. Zhou*, “Machine-learning Empowered Quantitative Phase Imaging for Label-free Live-cell Imaging and Analysis,” SPIE Advanced Biophotonics Conference 2023, Jeju, Republic of Korea, 1 - 4 November 2023. (Keynote Talk)

20. R. Zhou*, “Deep-learning Quantitative Phase Imaging for High Throughput Live-cell Imaging and Analysis,” International Conference on Optical and Photonic Engineering (icOPEN) 2023, Optics and Photonics Society of Singapore (OPSS), Singapore, 27 November - 1 December 2023. (Invited Talk)

19. R. Zhou*, “定量相位显微技术的最新进展及其在生物医学成像和材料检测上的应用,” Forum for Optical Super-resolution Microscopy, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, 27 - 29 October 2023. (Invited Talk)

18. R. Zhou*, “Quantitative phase profilometry for Profiling 2D material,” 9th International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China, 26 - 28 August 2023. (Invited Talk)

17. R. Zhou*, “Recent Advances on Quantitative Phase Microscopy for Biomedical Imaging and Material Metrology” Computational Imaging Workshop, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 27 - 31 July 2023. (Invited Talk)

16. R. Zhou*, “AI-empowered Quantitative Phase Microscopy for Label-free Live-cell Analysis,” International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), Fuzhou, Fujian, China, 22 - 23 July 2023. (Invited Talk)

15. R. Zhou*, “Exploring Phase Spatial Resolution Limit in Quantitative Phase Microscopy,” Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium, The Electromagnetics Academy, Prague, Czech Republic, 3 - 6 July 2023. (Invited Talk)

14. R. Zhou*, “Quantitative Phase Imaging (QPI): Bridge between Optical Physics and Live-cell Analysis,” iCANX Youth Talk, iCANX科学平台, Online Only, China, 4 April 2023. (Invited Talk)

13. R. Zhou*, “High-speed Optical Diffraction Tomography for Cell Analysis and Additive Manufacturing Metrology,” 第三届全国光子技术论坛, 国家自然科学基金委, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 31 March - 3 April 2023. (Invited Talk)

12. R. Zhou*, “Learning Gabi's QPI and wisdom,” Quantitative Phase Imaging IX Conference, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, CA, United States, 28 - 30 January 2023. (Invited Talk)

2022

11. R. Zhou*, “High Spatiotemporal Resolution Quantitative Phase Microscopy for Biomedical Imaging and Material Metrology Applications,” Advanced Photonics Workshop, IEEE TENCON 2022, Hong Kong, China, 1 - 4 November 2022. (Invited Talk)

10. Y. He and R. Zhou*, “High-Speed Optical Diffraction Tomography for Cell Analysis and Additive Manufacturing Metrology,” 2022 Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 11 - 15 July 2022. (Invited Talk)

9. Y. Nie, N. Zhou, and R. Zhou*, “Quantitative Phase Microscopy with Ultra-high Sensitivity for Profiling Single-layer Materials,” 2022 Photonics North (PN), Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, 24 - 26 May 2022. (Invited Talk)

2021

8. R. Zhou*, “Single-frame Label-free Cell Tomography,” The 14th IEEE International Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors, Hong Kong, China, 18 - 20 November 2021. (Invited Keynote Talk)

7. R. Zhou*, “Single-shot cell tomography for 3D image cytometry applications,” 26th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC), Hong Kong, China, 3 - 7 July 2021. (Invited Talk)

6. R. Zhou*, “Single-shot Cell Tomography with Sub-millisecond Temporal Resolution,” 2021 Photonics North (PN), Toronto, ON, Canada, 31 May - 2 June 2021. (Invited Talk)

2020

5. R. Zhou*, “Empowering Quantitative Phase Imaging with Artificial-intelligence, High-speed, and 3D-vision,” KAIST e-workshop on Quantitative Phase Imaging, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, 23 December 2020. (Invited Talk)

2019

4. R. Zhou*, “Towards smarter and faster quantitative phase microscopy,” Optics Frontier—The 11th International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics (CIOP 2019), Xi’an, Shanxi, China, 6 - 9 August 2019. (Invited Talk)

3. R. Zhou*, “High Throughput Quantitative Phase Microscopy and Tomography,” International Workshop on Computational Imaging and Optical Metrology (CIOM), co-organized by Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and ZYGO Corporation, Shanghai, China, 11 - 12 July 2019. (Invited Talk)

2. R. Zhou*, “Quantitative Phase Microscopy with Artificial Intelligence and Ultrahigh Imaging Speed,” Advances in Microscopic Imaging, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, Munich, Germany, 23 - 27 June 2019. (Invited Talk)