Chenshu Zhou

About

Chenshu Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Cinema & Media Studies in the Department of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD from Stanford University in 2016 and has held postdoctoral teaching positions at NYU Shanghai and Stanford University. Her research primarily focuses on China, exploring questions related to cinema and media, including exhibition and moviegoing, cinema ontology, screen cultures, media archaeology, and media infrastructure. Her forthcoming book, Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China, rethinks the institutional, ideological, and cultural role of film exhibition, demonstrating that film exhibition can produce meaning independently of the films shown. It examines film exhibition in China from 1949 to the early 1990s, drawing on archival research, interviews, and audience recollections to explore how screening spaces, media technology, and the human body mediate encounters with cinema. Currently, she is expanding her research into the material history of Chinese cinema through a project on cinematic objects and exploring the relationship between time-based media and transportation infrastructure, such as bridges and highways. She is also guest editing a special issue of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas titled “Spaces of Encounter.” In her teaching, Zhou emphasizes empowering students to learn in personally meaningful ways and teaches courses in both the History of Art Department and the Cinema and Media Studies…

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Computer vision
• Physics
• Biomedical engineering
• Optics
• Medicine

Selected publications

• Self-assembling human heart organoids for the modeling of cardiac development and congenital heart disease

  Nature Communications · 2021-08-26 · 480 citations

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  Congenital heart defects constitute the most common human birth defect, however understanding of how these disorders originate is limited by our ability to model the human heart accurately in vitro. Here we report a method to generate developmentally relevant human heart organoids by self-assembly using human pluripotent stem cells. Our procedure is fully defined, efficient, reproducible, and compatible with high-content approaches. Organoids are generated through a three-step Wnt signaling modu…

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• Optical coherence tomography image denoising using a generative adversarial network with speckle modulation

  Journal of Biophotonics · 2020-01-23 · 76 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding

  Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is widely used for biomedical imaging and clinical diagnosis. However, speckle noise is a key factor affecting OCT image quality. Here, we developed a custom generative adversarial network (GAN) to denoise OCT images. A speckle-modulating OCT (SM-OCT) was built to generate low speckle images to be used as the ground truth. In total, 210 000 SM-OCT images were used for training and validating the neural network model, which we call SM-GAN. The performance of the…

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• LABEL-FREE EVALUATION OF MOUSE EMBRYO QUALITY USING TIME-LAPSE BRIGHT FIELD AND OPTICAL COHERENCE MICROSCOPY

  Fertility and Sterility · 2025-12-01

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• Interpersonal Relationship Analysis with Dyadic EEG Signals via Learning Spatial-Temporal Patterns

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024-01-06

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  Interpersonal relationship quality is pivotal in social and occupational contexts. Existing analysis of interpersonal relationships mostly rely on subjective self-reports, whereas objective quantification remains challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel social relationship analysis framework using spatio-temporal patterns derived from dyadic EEG signals, which can be applied to quantitatively measure team cooperation in corporate team building, and evaluate interpersonal dynamics between t…

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• Human Heart Assembloids with Autologous Tissue-Resident Macrophages Recreate Physiological Immuno-Cardiac Interactions

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01

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Recent grants

• IDBR: Type A: Ultrahigh-Speed Space-Division Multiplexing Optical Coherence Tomography for Label-free and Non-destructive Biological Imaging

  NSF · $510k · 2015–2019

• NIH Grant R00EB010071

  NIH · $479k · 2015

• Space-division multiplexing optical coherence tomography for large-scale, millisecond resolution imaging of neural activity

  NIH · $468k · 2015–2018

Frequent coauthors

• James G. Fujimoto

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  87 shared

• Tsung-Han Tsai

  71 shared

• Hsiang‐Chieh Lee

  National Taiwan Ocean University

  60 shared

• Turgut Durduran

  Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

  58 shared

• Yihong Wang

  57 shared

• Arjun G. Yodh

  University of Pennsylvania

  56 shared

• Guoqiang Yu

  53 shared

• James L. Connolly

  52 shared

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