James Zou
Faculty Director Of AI For Health at Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Zou is a Stanford associate professor and Faculty Director of AI for Health who develops trustworthy, reliable machine learning methods applied to biomedical and clinical problems. He leads a 15-person research group and runs a cross-department program that forges industry partnerships across biotech, pharma, insurance, and wellness. His work spans foundational ML—focused on robustness and reliability—and translational projects whose innovations are adopted by tech and biotech companies. A recipient of a Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER, two Chan Zuckerberg Investigator awards and multiple industry faculty awards, he combines rigorous theory with real-world impact. Trained at Harvard, Cambridge and Berkeley, he brings a rare mix of deep math background and practical genomics experience from Microsoft Research.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Simons Research Fellow, Simons Research Fellow at University of California, BerkeleyPart III in Mathematics, Part III in Mathematics at University of CambridgeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Harvard University
Github Skills (12)
r-package6
seq4
pipeline4
genomics3
bioinformatics3
variants3
chip-seq3
docker2
data-processing2
singularity2
loops2
vep1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jchap14/ChIPseq
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:67 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
jchap14/Unix_Bash_scripts
Nov 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
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