Professor
CHAO ZHOU
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Optical Society of America (OSA)
Tel: 314-935-1296
Email: chaozhou@wustl.edu
Office: Whitaker Hall, Room 390E
Education
Ph.D. Physics, University of Pennsylvania 2007
M.S. Physics, University of Pennsylvania 2003
B.S. Physics, Peking University 2001
Short Biography
Dr. Chao Zhou graduated from Peking University in China (B.S., 2001), obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania (2007), and received post-doctoral training from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Zhou joins the McKelvey Engineering School from Lehigh University, where he is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a founding member of the Department of Bioengineering. He joined Lehigh in 2012 as an assistant professor and served as the P. C. Rossin Assistant Professor from 2015-2017. Dr. Zhou has extensive experience in biophotonics and has contributed to the development and validation of novel imaging modalities for various applications ranging from measuring the brain function to monitoring cancer treatments. Dr. Zhou has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and is a senior member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Optical Society of America (OSA), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He serves as an associate editor of the IEEE Photonics Journal.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Education
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Tianjin University
M.S. Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University
B.S. In Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University
Research Interest
Signal Processing, Image Processing, Medical Instrumentation
Hobby
Hiking
Graduate Student
Education
Ph.D. student Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, 8/2019 – present
B.S. Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 8/2015- 7/2019
Research Interest
Optical systems, Nanophotonics, Integrated Optics
Hobby
Basketball
Education
B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri – Columbia, 08/2016-05/2019
Research Interest
Signal processing, Optimization, Electrical hardware, Data analysis
Hobby
Trip, Cook, Extreme Sport
Education
M.S. Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis , 09/2019-Present
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, 09/2015-06/2019
Research Interest
OCT and OCM Imaging in Developmental Biology
Hobby
Sports
Technician
Education
M.D. Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University
B.S. Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University
Research Interest
OCT
Hobby
Fishing, Soccer
Undergraduate Student
Abby Matt
Email:amatt@wustl.edu
Education
Biomedical Engineering undergraduate student
Research Interest
Fruit fly project/optogenetic pacing
Hobby
Running
Alumni
| Name | Time at Z-lab | Role at Z-lab | Placement |
| Aneesh Alex | 11/2012-03/2015 | Post-doctoral Associate | Visiting Scientist (GlaxoSmithKline), Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology |
| Xianxu Zeng | 11/2013-10/2014 | Visiting Scholar | Director, Pathology Department, the 3rd Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China |
| Yutao Ma | 06/2012-09/2012 | Visiting Scholar | Associate professor, Software Engineering, Wuhan University, China |
| Qing Xu | 07/2014-09/2014 | Visiting Scholar | Shanghai, China |
| Mingming Chen (Brain Chan) | 09/2015-09/2016 | Visiting Student | Graduate student at Wuhan University, China |
| Charly Caredda | 06/2013-08-2013 | M.S., TELECOM Saint – Etienne | |
| Fengqiang Li | 06/2012-08/2012 | M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering | Ph.D. student at Northwestern University |
| Andre Sukernik | 12/2013-05/2015 | B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) |
| Jonah Kohen | 06/2013-08/2013 | B.S., Computer Engineering | Graduate student at Stanford University |
| Katherine Vojir | 06/2012-09/2012 | B.S., Bioengineering | Biomaterials Research Engineer at DSM |
| Nicole Pirozzi | 09/2012-05/2014 | B.S., Bioengineering | Erasmus Mundus Master Program in Europe |
| Luisa Geopfert | 09/2015-02/2016 | Exchange Student | Lehigh University |
| Dana McAllister | 09/2012-05/2014 | High school student | Undergraduate student at Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Yuan Ning | 09/2016-06/2017 | Visiting Student | Tufts University |
| Jinda Pan | 09/2016-06/2017 | Visiting Student | Tianjin University |
| Canyu Li | 08/2016-08/2017 | Visiting Scholar | Deputy Director, The 3rd Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China |
| Penghe Wu | 08/2015-09/2017 | Ph.D. candidate | |
| Xialin Sang | 07/2017-10/2017 | Visiting Student | Undergraduate student at Hainan University |
| Jia Rao | 01/2016-05/2017 | Undergraduate Student | Graduate Student at Cornell University |
| Ian Rubinoff | 01/2016-05/2017 | Undergraduate Student | Ph.D. student at Northwestern University |
| Qiongyu Guo | Research Scientist | Southern University of Science and Technology | |
| Tao xu | 08/2016-01/2018 | Visiting Student | Wuhan University |
| Xiaofang Wang | 02/2017-02/2018 | Visiting Student | Zhengzhou University |
| Jinming Wang | 08/2017-02/2018 | Visiting Student | Zhengzhou University |
| Mudabbir Badar | 08/2016-12/2018 | Postdoc | Kochi University of Technology |
| Yongyang Huang | 09/2013–05/2019 | Ph.D | Lehigh University |
| Lian Duan | 09/2015–12/2018 | M.S. | Lehigh University |
| Jason Syu | 09/2016-05/2018 | M.S. | Lehigh University |
| Yuanhao | 09/2017-05/2018 | M.S. | Lehigh University |
| Junchao Liu | Visiting Student | Computer Science, Wuhan University | |
| Luisa Goepfert | 09/2015-12/2015 | Visiting Student | |
| Rhea Malhotra | High School Student | Moravian Academy Upper School | |
| Guoyan Liu | 11/2018–07/2019 | Visiting Scholar | Weifang Medical University |
| Zhiwen Yang | 01/2019–08/2019 | Visiting Student | |
| Jingyun Zou | Ph.D. student | ||
| Zhao Dong | Ph.D. | ||
| Jason Jerwick | Ph.D. | ||
| Jing Men | Ph.D. | ||
| Guangming Ni | Postdoc |