Prof. Shu Xin
舒心教授
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, CUHK
xinshu[a]cuhk.edu.hk
Location: RRSSB 212A
About
Xin Shu received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information from Sichuan University in 2017 and her Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2023, supported by the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme. Before joining the faculty, she served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at CUHK. Her research integrates computational optics, optical computing, and quantitative phase imaging for biomedical applications and nanometrology. Her work has been published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Advanced Intelligent Systems, and Photonics Research, etc. She holds a granted U.S. patent and received Best Paper Awards at IEEE ICCP 2024.
Professional Education and Training
- 2018-2023, Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2013-2017, B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Information, Sichuan University
Research Interest
- Computational optics and AI-enabled microscopy
- Optical computing and in-situ optimization of physical optical systems
Course Teaching in CUHK
- BMEG2300 Circuits and Signals for Biomedical Engineering
- BMEG4320 AI & Imaging for Biomedical Engineering
- BMEG5730 Medical Devices and Sensor Networks
- BMEG5830 Medical Imaging
- BMEG5860 E-Health
Selected Publications
- X. Shu, M. Niu, Y. Zhang, W. Luo, and R. Zhou*, “Neural Architecture Search Generated Phase Retrieval Net for Real-Time Off-Axis Quantitative Phase Imaging,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 37, 1069-1072 (2025).
- G. Zhao†*, X. Shu†, and R. Zhou, “High-Performance Real-World Optical Computing Trained by In Situ Gradient-Based Model-Free Optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 47, 7194-7205 (2025).
- G. Luo, Y. He, X. Shu, R. Zhou, and T. Blu*, “Complex Wave and Phase Retrieval from a Single Off-Axis Interferogram,” Journal of the Optical Society of America A 40, 85-95 (2023).
- X. Shu†, S. Sansare†, D. Jin, X. Zeng, K. Y. Tong, R. Pandey*, and R. Zhou*, “Artificial-Intelligence-Enabled Reagent-Free Imaging Hematology Analyzer,” Advanced Intelligent Systems 3, 2000277 (2021).
- M. Niu, G. Luo, X. Shu, F. Qu, S. Zhou, Y. P. Ho, N. Zhao, and R. Zhou*, “Portable Quantitative Phase Microscope for Material Metrology and Biological Imaging,” Photonics Research 8, 1253-1259 (2020).
