James Zou

James Zou, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His work focuses on making machine learning more reliable, human-compatible and statistically rigorous, with a special interest in applications in human disease and health. Several of his algorithms are widely used in tech and biotech industries. Dr. Zou received a PhD 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 excited to be a two-time Chan-Zuckerberg Investigator and the faculty director of the university-wide Stanford Data4Health hub. He 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.