James Zou

I am an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. I work on making machine learning more reliable, human-compatible and statistically rigorous, and am especially interested in applications in human disease and health. I received my Ph.D from Harvard in 2014, and was at one time a member of Microsoft Research, a Gates Scholar at Cambridge and a Simons fellow at U.C. Berkeley. I joined Stanford in 2016 and am excited to also be a Chan-Zuckerberg Investigator. We are also a part of the Stanford AI Lab. My research is supported by the Sloan Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Google and Tencent AI awards.

Academic Appointments

• Assistant Professor, Biomedical Data Science
• Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Computer Science
• Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Electrical Engineering
• Member, Bio-X
• Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
• Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
• Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Honors & Awards

• Sloan Research Fellowship, Sloan Foundation (2021)
• NSF CAREER Award, NSF (2020)
• RECOMB Best Paper, RECOMB (2019)
• Google Faculty Award, Google (2018)
• Chan-Zuckerberg Investigator, CZ Biohub (2017)
• Simons Research Fellow, Simons Foundation (2014)
• NSF GRFP, NSF (2008)
• Gates-Cambridge Scholar, Gates Foundation (2007)