Chao Zhou
- Phone
314-935-1296 - Office
Whitaker Hall, Room 390E - Lab location
Whitaker Hall, Room 245
Google ScholarEducation
PhD, physics, University of PennsylvaniaBS, physics, Peking University, China
Expertise
Develops novel optical imaging technologies for biomedical applications including cancer research and tissue engineering
Focus
Biophotonics, medical instrumentation, imaging sciences, optical coherence tomography (OCT) and microscopy (OCM) and optogenetic pacing
Research
Chao Zhou's research interests are in optical coherence tomography, a growing technology used to perform high-resolution cross-sectional imaging using light. He has multiple grants funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other federal and private sources. He holds multiple U.S. and international patents for his inventions, and has published dozens of articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as several book chapters. He is an Editorial Board Member for Communications Biology, and associate editor for IEEE Photonics Journal, Journal of Biomedical Optics and Medical Physics.
Biography
Zhou joined the McKelvey Engineering School from Lehigh University, where he was 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. He completed postdoctoral work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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