Prof. Chongzhao Wu is an Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received B.S. degree from Fudan University, Shanghai, China in 2010 and Ph.D. degree from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, US in 2016. He performed postdoctoral research at Columbia University, New York, US. His research interests include terahertz and mid-infrared photonics, biomedical imaging and sensing, metasurfaces and optoelectronic devices. He has published in journals such as Optica, Advanced Science, ACS Photonics, Nanophotonics, APL Photonics, Nature, Nature Communications, Optics Express, and presented on CLEO, IEEE Photonics Conference, SPIE Photonics West, IRMMW-THz, IQCLSW. He serves as the Early Career Editorial Board of Photonics Insights. His research has been reported by Science Daily, Phys.org, Optics and Photonics News, US National Science Foundation (NSF). He is the recipient of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Excellence in Mentoring Award and Outstanding Teaching Award, Baker Institute Innovation Prize, Packard Fellowship, SPIE Travel Award, Rossin Doctoral Fellow, Sherman Fairchild Fellowship for Solid State Studies and Forbes 30 Under 30 in China 2019. The undergraduate course he is teaching has been honored as one of the top first-class courses at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is the PI of more than 14 research projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai, Shanghai Young Scholar Sailing Foundation et al. Student members from Prof. Chongzhao Wu’s group have been awarded the Outstanding Graduates Awards in Shanghai and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

B. Chen, K. Zhou, J. Shao, X. Zhao, B. Xu, J. Zhu, B. Xue, Z. Tan, J. Cao, H. Li, and C. Wu. “A low-loss hollow-core waveguide bundle for terahertz imaging under a cryogenic environment”, ACS Photonics, 2024, 11, 8, 3068–3078.

P. Tang, W. Wei, B. Xu, X. Zhao, J. Shao, Y. Tian, and C. Wu. “Terahertz deep-optics imaging enabled by perfect lens-initialized optical and electronic neural networks”, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2024.

B. Xu, W. Wei, P. Tang, J. Shao, X. Zhao, B. Chen, S. Dong, and C. Wu. “A multi-foci sparse-aperture metalens”, Advanced Science, 2024, 11,19, 2309648.

J. Shao, X. Zhao, P. Tang, B. Chen, B. Xu, H. Lu, Z. Qin, and C. Wu. “Label-free investigation of infected acute pyelonephritis tissue by FTIR microspectroscopy with unsupervised and supervised analytical methods”, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2024, 321,124753.

J.Zhu, W.Wei, B.Chen, P.Tang, X.Zhao, and C.Wu. “A surface-enhanced infrared absorption sensor incorporating liquid-galinstan with three-dimensional metagratings”, ACS Photonics, 2024,11, 5, 1857–1865.

B. Chen, B. Xu, J. Zhu, P. Tang, J. Shao, S. Yang, G. Ding, and C. Wu. “Hollow-core metallic waveguide-based molecular sensing in terahertz to mid-infrared spectral range”, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023, 23, 23, 28923-28931.

W. Wei, P. Tang, J. Shao, J. Zhu, X. Zhao, and C. Wu. “End-to-end design of metasurface-based complex-amplitude holograms by physics-driven deep neural networks”, Nanophotonics, 2022, 11, 12, 2921-2929.

B. Chen, W. Wei, J. Shao, B. Xu, H. Zhu, G. Xu, and C. Wu. “Spatially, spectrally single-mode and mechanically flexible 3D-printed terahertz transmission waveguides”, IEEE Photonics Journal, 2022, 14, 1, 5906907.

P. Tang, X. Chi, B. Chen, and C. Wu, “Predictions of resonant mode characteristics for terahertz quantum cascade lasers with distributed feedback utilizing machine learning”, Optics Express, 2021, 29, 15309-15326.

Y. Wang, C. Chen, J. He, Y. Cao, X. Fang, X. Chi, J. Yi, J. Wu, Q. Guo, H. Masoomi, C. Wu, J. Ye, H. Gu, and H. Xu. “Precisely encoded barcodes through the structure-fluorescence combinational strategy: A flexible, robust, and versatile multiplexed biodetection platform with ultrahigh encoding capacities”, Small, 2021, 17, 2100315.

Z. Zhang, D. Schwanz, B. Narayanan, M. Kotiuga, J. A. Dura, M. Cherukara, H. Zhou, J. W. Freeland, J. Li, R. Sutarto, F. He, C. Wu, J. Zhu, Y. Sun, K. Ramadoss, S. S. Nonnenmann, N. Yu, R. Comin, K. M. Rabe, S. K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan, and S. Ramanathan, “Perovskite nickelates as electric field sensors in salt water”, Nature, 2018, 553, 68-72.

Y. Jin, L. Gao, J. Chen, C. Wu, J. Reno, and S. Kumar, “High power surface emitting terahertz laser with hybrid second- and fourth-order Bragg gratings”, Nature Communications, 2018, 9: 1407.

C. Wu, Y. Jin, J. Reno, and S. Kumar, “Large static tuning of narrow-beam terahertz plasmonic lasers operating at 78 K”, APL Photonics, 2017, 2.2, 026101.

C. Wu, S. Khanal, J. Reno, and S. Kumar, “Terahertz plasmonic laser radiating in an ultra-narrow beam”, Optica, 2016, 3, 734–740.

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