Jiayu Zhou is a tenured associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information with 12 years of experience developing machine learning methods and applying AI to health and interdisciplinary problems. He has a strong track record bridging academia and industry, from leading large-scale recommender and low-power deep learning research at Samsung Research America to building disease progression and biomarker models at ASU’s Biodesign Institute. As co-founder and VP of technology at the I-Connect Foundation he applies state-of-the-art AI to support socially isolated seniors and early dementia detection, translating research into real-world impact. His work spans multi-task learning, scalable optimization, and biomedical informatics, and he is the creator of the widely used MALSAR multi-task learning package. Based in Ann Arbor, he combines rigorous PhD-level methodology with product-minded engineering to move AI from prototype to deployment in healthcare settings.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Arizona State University
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science and Technology at Beijing Jiaotong University
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