Self introduction

Full Name: Zhao Qi

Webpage: 863zq.github.io

Email: zhaoqi.zhao@connect.polyu.hk

ORCID: 0000-0002-8594-6940

Google Scholar: fwYXanQAAAAJ

Research Gate: Qi-Zhao-111

Biography

CUHK (Postdoctoral Fellow) 12/2024 – Present

• Affiliation: The Chinese University of Hong Kong — Department of Biomedical Engineering

• Supervisor: Prof. Renjie Zhou

CIMDA (Postdoctoral Fellow) 11/2024 – 12/2025

• Affiliation: City University of Hong Kong — Centre for Intelligent Multidimensional Data Analysis Limited

• Supervisor: Prof. Hong Yan

PolyU (Doctor of Philosophy) 09/2020 – 10/2024

• Affiliation: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University — Department of Biomedical Engineering

• Major: Biomedical Engineering (GPA: 3.49/4.30)

• Supervisor: Prof. Puxiang Lai

• Research: Wavefront shaping, Speckle imaging, Computational imaging, Deep learning

• Thesis: Understanding and manipulation of optical speckles.

THU (Master of Science) 09/2017 – 08/2020

• Affiliation: Tsinghua University — Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute

• Major: Data Science and Information Technology (GPA: 3.71/4.00)

• Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Xiang Qian, Prof. Xiaohao Wang, Prof. Zheng You, Prof. Liwei Lin (UC Berkeley)

• Research: Flexible sensors, Micro-electromechanical Systems

NWPU (Bachelor of Engineering) 09/2013 – 06/2017

• Affiliation: Northwestern Polytechnical University — Honors College & School of Electronics and Information

• Major: Electronic Information Engineering (GPA: 3.67/4.00)

• Supervisor: Prof. Mingyi He

• Research: Image recognition, Deep learning

• Awards: Outstanding Undergraduate at NWPU (06/2017)

• Contests: Meritorious Winner of Mathematical Contest In Modeling (01/2016)

Selected Publications

1. Extended Learning Robustness for High-Fidelity Human Face Imaging from Spatiotemporally Decorrelated Speckles

   Laser & Photonics Reviews 2025 (IF = 10.0) DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202401836

2. Speckle transformer: direct classification through scattering media with limited information

   Advanced Photonics Nexus 2025 (IF = 6.0) DOI: 10.1117/1.APN.4.5.056016

3. Delocalized information in optical speckles: a learning-based study

   Under revision 2025

4. Deep-Tissue Optics: Technological Development and Applications

   Chinese Journal of Lasers 2024 (IF = 2.57) DOI: 10.3788/CJL231318

5. Speckle-Based Optical Cryptosystem and its Application for Human Face Recognition via Deep Learning

   Advanced Science 2022 (IF = 15.1) DOI: 10.1002/advs.202202407

6. Parameter-free optimization algorithm for iterative wavefront shaping

   Optics Letters 2021 (IF = 3.6) DOI: 10.1364/OL.427215

7. Speckle-based optical cryptosystem for encrypted face recognition

   Chinese Patent 2021 ZL202111273688.7

Academic Posts

1. Guest Editor - MDPI Electronics - Special Issues - Advances in Cryptography and Image Encryption

2. Reviewer - Optics and Laser Technology

3. Reviewer - Optics Letters

4. Reviewer - Advanced Photonics Nexus