James Zou

James Zou is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He works on making machine learning more reliable, human-compatible and statistically rigorous, and am especially interested in applications in human disease and health. Several of his algorithms are widely used in tech and biotech industries. Zou received a Ph.D from Harvard in 2014, and was a member of Microsoft Research, a Gates Scholar at Cambridge and a Simons fellow at UC Berkeley. He joined Stanford in 2016 and is a two-time Chan-Zuckerberg Investigator and the faculty director of the university-wide Stanford Data4Health hub. Zou is also a member of the Stanford AI Lab. His research is supported by the Sloan Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, and Google, Amazon and Adobe AI awards.