Lab Director

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: Renjie Zhou received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014, followed by postdoctoral training at the George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Lab at MIT before joining the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2017. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at CUHK, where he directs the Laser Metrology and Biomedicine Lab. His research has been focused on advancing light microscopy technologies, specifically the field of quantitative phase imaging (QPI) and demonstrating the impact across fields. He has published ~ 70 journal papers in Nature Photonics, Light: Science & Applications, Optics Letters, etc. and ~ 60 conference proceedings, as well as filed ~ 15 patents. He has successfully transferred his QPI technologies to industry through his startup, Bay Jay Ray which has deployed products in industry and academia. Dr. Zhou is a Senior Member of Optica and SPIE and currently serves on the editorial boards of Photonics Research and IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. In recent years, he received the Croucher Innovation Awards from the Croucher Foundation (2019), the Young Scientist Award from the Electromagnetics Academy (2023), the Excellent Young Scientists Fund from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2024), and the Hong Kong RGC Research Fellow Scheme (2025). For more information, refer to my CV.