Palo Alto, California, United States
James Zou is an associate professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, CS and EE at Stanford University. He is also the faculty director of Stanford AI4Health. He works on both improving the foundations of ML–-by making models more trustworthy and reliable–-as well as in-depth scientific and clinical applications. Many of his innovations are widely used in tech and biotech industries. He has received a Sloan Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, two Chan-Zuckerberg Investigator Awards, a Top Ten Clinical Achievement Award, several best paper awards, and faculty awards from Google, Amazon, Tencent and Adobe. His research has also been profiled in popular press including the NY Times, WSJ, Washington Post and WIRED. https://www.james-zou.com/
I'm the faculty director for Stanford AI for Health, which is a cross-department program that facilitates industry collaboration with Stanford researchers. We work with partners across biotech/pharma, insurance and wellness industries.
I lead a group of 15 talented PhD students and postdoc researchers developing new machine learning algorithms motivated by biotech and healthcare applications.
Member of the SAB.
I worked on statistical machine learning and computational genomics.