ZHOU Renjie

Renjie Zhou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Electronic Engineering, and directs the Laser Metrology and Biomedicine Lab. The laboratory's director profile records that he received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014, then trained as a postdoctoral researcher at the George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory at MIT before joining The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017. His research advances light microscopy, in particular quantitative phase imaging, and demonstrates its impact across fields. The profile records about seventy journal papers in venues such as Nature Photonics, Light: Science & Applications and Optics Letters, about sixty conference proceedings and some fifteen patents, and notes that he has transferred his quantitative phase imaging technologies to industry through a startup whose products are deployed in industry and academia. The profile also lists honours including the Croucher Innovation Award (2019), the Young Scientist Award of the Electromagnetics Academy (2023), the Excellent Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2024) and the Hong Kong RGC Research Fellow Scheme (2025); he is a Fellow of SPIE and serves on the editorial boards of Photonics Research and IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. A university press release records that he was an Assistant Professor in the department when he received the Croucher award in 2019 for reflection-mode tomographic phase microscopy for in vivo imaging.