Prof. Renjie Zhou

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 a 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), Faculty of Engineering. Over the past decade, I have focused on developing optical imaging methods from deriving physical models and building the instrument to demonstrating their applications. I contributed to > 60 journal papers and > 50 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 about 20 research seminars at different universities between 2016-2018. As a recipient of SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship, I organized iOptics seminar series at UIUC while I was a graduate student. I strongly advocate interdisciplinary research, for which reason I was awarded a Beckman Institute Fellowship from 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