Faculty
Dr. Zhenzhou CHENG (IEEE/OPTICA/SPIE Senior Member) is the chairman and professor of the Department of Optoelectronic Information Engineering at Tianjin University, visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, and academic dean of the School of Physics and Electronic Engineering at Xinjiang Normal University. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees, both from Nankai University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong under the support of the Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Scheme. In 2015, he joined Goda Lab in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tokyo as an assistant professor. In 2018, he joined the School of Precision Instrument and Opto-electronics Engineering at Tianjin University as a full professor. From 2023-2025, he was appointed as a Director of the Division of Science and Technology at Xinjiang Normal University. His research interests focus on silicon photonics. He is in charge of several projects funded by NSFC and JSPS. He published over 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers with more than 5100 citations and was featured in Stanford University's list of the Top 2% Scientists. He received several education and research awards, namely, Second-Class Award in Research Achievements from the Ministry of Education, China; Second-Class Award in Research Achievements from the Chinese Optical Society, China; Young Scientist Award from the Hong Kong Institute of Science, Hong Kong; Outstanding Instructor Award from National College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program; Young Alumni Award and Young Scholars Thesis Awards from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He served as an editorial board member of Photonics and a reviewer for NSFC and Hong Kong GRF, as well as more than 100 academic journals, including Nature Photonics, and received IEEE PTL Outstanding Reviewer Award. He has participated in organizing several academic conferences, including OECC, CLEO-PR, ACP, etc.. More information about his research can be found as follows.
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhenzhou-Cheng
Email: zhenzhoucheng@tju.edu.cn
Dr. Zunyue ZHANG (IEEE/OPTICA Member) is currently a research associate in the School of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering at Tianjin University. Dr. Zhang received her B.S. degree in Opto-Electronics Information Science and Engineering from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 2017 and her Ph.D. degree in Electronics Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, in 2021. She received full funding support from the Research Talent Hub of the Innovation and Technology Commission to carry out the postdoctoral research work from September 2021. Dr. Zhang joined Tianjin University as an Associate Professor in 2023. Her research interests include integrated optical spectrometers, mid-infrared photonics, and spectral domain sensing and imaging systems. Dr. Zhang has participated in the Innovation and Technology Support Programme and Midstream Research Programme for Universities funded by the Innovation and Technology Commission of Hong Kong SAR as the technical leader and led the Tianjin University Innovation Funding Programme. Dr. Zhang has published over 10 SCI papers as the first/corresponding author in journals including Applied Physics Reviews, Laser & Photonics Reviews, etc., and delivered over 10 invited/ contributed talks at top conferences like CLEO. She holds one US utility patent and one Hong Kong short-term patent, received the Rising Star Women in Engineering award in 2022, and Huawei Young Scholar Funding in 2024. She served as the reviewer of multiple journals, including Opto-Electronic Advances, Photonic Research, etc. More information about her research can be found as follows.
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zunyue-Zhang
Email: zyzhang2023@tju.edu.cn
Dr. Yin YU is a Senior Experimentalist in the School of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering at Tianjin University. In 2008, she received her B.Sc. in Materials Physics from Nankai University. In 2013, she earned her Ph.D. in Optics from Nankai University. Then, she joined the School of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering at Tianjin University. Currently, she holds the positions of Deputy Director and Party Branch Secretary of the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, responsible for the management and teaching tasks of the center, as well as undertaking the construction of virtual simulation laboratories and daily operation of the Opto-Eletronic Information Student Innovation Laboratory at Tianjin University. During her tenure, Dr. Yu has been in charge of and participated in several projects, namely, national 973 projects, key projects of international cooperation of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has published over ten papers and is responsible for several teaching reform projects. The innovation and entrepreneurship projects she has supervised, including the National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Project, the “Challenge Cup” Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition for College Students, the National Undergraduate Optoelectronic Design Contest, and iCAN International Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Competition, have won multiple awards.
Email: yuyin@tju.edu.cn
Member
Name: Zhengkun Xing Position: Ph.D. candidate Education: B.Sc. BIT, M.Sc. BJUT Addmission Time: 2018 Direction: opto-electronic integration Hobbies: basketball
Name: Rongxiang Guo Position: Ph.D. candidate Education: B.Sc. TJU Addmission Time: 2020 Direction: optical sensing Hobbies: history, billiards, table tennis
Name: Mojtaba Hosseinzadeh Sani Position: Ph.D. candidate Education: B.Sc. EIHE, M.Sc. IRIU Addmission Time: 2021 Direction: optical sensing Hobbies: badminton
Name: Tianping Xu Position: Ph.D. candidate Education: B.Sc. BJTU, M.Sc. MUC Addmission Time: 2022 Direction: opto-electronic integration Hobbies: fitness, basketball, swimming
Name: Liqiang Qi Position: Ph.D. candidate Education: B.Sc. NKU Addmission Time: 2023 Direction: opto-electronic integration Hobbies: music, running, travel
Name: Si Chen Position: Ph.D. candidate Education: B.Sc. TYUT, M. Sc. TJU Addmission Time: 2024 Direction: optical sensing Hobbies: running, music, exploring intriguing things
Name: Shujiao Zhang Position: M.Sc. graduate student Education: B.Sc. TJU Addmission Time: 2022 Direction: spectroscopic technology Hobbies: music, hard-pen calligraphy
Name: Xingyu Liu Position: M.Sc. graduate student Education: B.Sc. TJU Addmission Time: 2023 Direction: optical sensing Hobbies: guitar, swimming
Name: Yichen Liu Position: M.Sc. graduate student Education: B.Sc. TJU Addmission Time: 2023 Direction: spectroscopic technology Hobbies: guzheng, Chinese painting, badminton
Name: Yaru Wang Position: M.Sc. graduate student Education: B.Sc. TJU Addmission Time: 2023 Direction: spectroscopic technology Hobbies: painting, lute
Name: Qiyue Lang Position: M.Sc. graduate student Education: B.Sc. TJU Addmission Time: 2024 Direction: optical sensing Hobbies: swimming, running, traveling
Name: Zhijie Wei Position: M.Sc. graduate student Education: B.Sc. TJU Addmission Time: 2024 Direction: spectroscopic technology Hobbies: reading, running, badminton
Name: Changlong Du Position: FYP student Education: undergraduate@TJU Addmission Time: 2021 Direction: opto-electronics information engineering Hobbies: reading, table tennis, music
Name: Rui Niu Position: FYP student Education: undergraduate@TJU Addmission Time: 2021 Direction: opto-electronics information engineering Hobbies: running, badminton, writing, music
Name: Zhihao Chen Position: FYP student Education: undergraduate@TJU Addmission Time: 2021 Direction: opto-electronics information engineering Hobbies: badminton
Name: Zhiqian Zhang Position: FYP student Education: undergraduate@TJU Addmission Time: 2021 Direction: opto-electronics information engineering Hobbies: music, reading, badminton
Alumna
Name: Yingdong Han Position: 2018-2021 Postdoc/Lecturer
Name: Yisheng Gao Position: 2021-2024 Postdoc/Lecturer
Name: Weicheng Chen Position: 2019 Ph.D. student Thesis: Study of silicon waveguide devices for short-wave mid-infrared optical frequency combs
Name: Jie Wang Position: 2019 M.Sc. student Thesis: Water molecules probes based on upconversion nanoparticles
Name: Jingwen Wu Position: 2019 M.Sc. student (National Scholarship Winner in 2021) Thesis: Study of a testing system for waveguide-integrated optical sensors based on grating couplers
Name: Enqing Zhang Position: 2019 M.Sc. student Thesis: Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy based on graphene/MoS2 heterostructure materials
Name: Dian Wan Position: 2020 M.Sc. student Thesis: Study of morphology-decorated hyperuniform disordered solids waveguide devices
Name: Haoran Gao Position: 2021 M.Sc. student (National Scholarship Winner in 2022) Thesis: Study of mid-infrared silicon-waveguide-integrated thermo-optic phase shifters
Name: Qi He Position: 2021 M.Sc. student (National Scholarship Winner in 2023) Thesis: Study of on-chip gas sensors based on silicon microring resonators