Zhiguo Zhou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
School of Computer Science and Mathematics
University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
Phone: +1-660-543-4507
Email: zzhou@ucmo.edu
Professional Experience
08/2019-Present Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), School of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
09/2017-08/2019 Instructor (Research-Track), Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
12/2014-08/2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
05/2013-05/2014 Visiting Scholar, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
09/2008-09/2014 Research Assistant, School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
Education
09/2008-09/2014 Ph. D. in Computer Science and Technology
Xidian University, Xi’an, China
10/2004-07/2008 B.S. in Computer Science and Technology
Xidian University, Xi’an, China
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence (AI); Reliable AI; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Knowledge-based Systems; Evolutionary Optimization; Radiomics; Treatment Outcome Prediction; Clinical Decision Support; Medical Image Analysis; Biomarker Discovery
Honors, Reports and Awards
2021 Faculty Scholar Award- Discovery category winner, University of Central Missouri
2020 “Multifaceted Radiomics” (Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2020) reported by Physics World Magazine (https://physicsworld.com/a/multifaceted-radiomics-predicts-cancer-metastasis-risk/) and interviewed by University of Central Missouri (https://www.ucmo.edu/news/university-news/posts/2020-07-30-ucm-professor-looks-at-multifaceted-radiomics-as-way-to-predict-risk-of-cancer-metastasis.php)
2019 “Hybrid outcome prediction model” (Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2019) reported by Physics World Magazine (https://physicsworld.com/a/hybrid-machine-learning-tool-spots-malignant-lymph-nodes/)
2019 “Roberts Best Paper Prize”, Physics in Medicine & Biology and Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) (https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0031-9155/page/Roberts_Best_Paper_Prize)
2018 AAPM Annual Meeting Science Highlights, Nashville, TN
2013 China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Scholarship (￥10, 000), China
2010-2014 Outstanding Graduate Scholarship, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
2008 Outstanding Graduated student, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
2007 National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest (NUEDC), Second class, China
2006 Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
Professional Society
2018-present Member, IEEE
Committee Service
2019 Session Chair, Big Data & Machine Learning Session, IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), Chicago, IL, USA
2019-2020 Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI), Shenzhen, China
2017-2019 Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Evidential Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence (ERAI)
2018 Co-chair, General and Theoretical Informatics-Deep learning and Big data to Knowledge, 40th International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), Honolulu, HI, USA
Certification
2019 Graduate Faculty Full Status Certificate (2019-2023), University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2017 Postdoctoral Certificate in Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
2010 Certificate in Second Sino-USA Summer School in Vision, Learning and Pattern Recognition (VLPR2010), Xi’an, China
Teaching
Undergraduate Courses
2019-2020 Lecturer, “Introduction to Biomedical Informatics”, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2019-2021 Lecturer, “Application Development with Visual Basic. NET”, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
Graduate Courses
2021-present Lecturer, “Introduction to Machine Learning”, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2021-present Lecturer, “Image Processing and Computer Vision (New open course)”, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2020-2020 Lecturer, “Big Data: Storage, Analytics and Visualization”, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2020-2020 Lecturer, “Artificial Intelligence”, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2019-2020 Lecturer, “Advanced Database Systems”, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2018-2018 Lecturer, “Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning (AI/ML) in Medicine”, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Training Supervision
2021-present Mentor, Catherine Helen Conn, Graduate student, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2021-present Mentor, Shruti Sachin Satpute, Graduate student, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2020-2020 Mentor, Gregory Pelc, Undergraduate student, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2020-2020 Mentor, Likhitha Reddy Adulla, Graduate student, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2020-present Mentor, Shiqi Zhang, Undergraduate student, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2020-present Mentor, Xiaoyu Wang (Co-supervise with Dr. Xi Chen), Graduate student, School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
2020-present Mentor, Jinkun Guo (Co-supervise with Dr. Rongfang Wang), Graduate student, School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
2020-present Mentor, Xinmiao Xing (Co-supervise with Dr. Jie Wu), Graduate student, School of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China
2020-2020 Mentor, Raghupriya Nekkalapu, Graduate student, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2020-2020 Mentor, Sonuchowdary Narra, Graduate student, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2019-present Mentor, Ahmad Adnan Hasan Qasem, Graduate student, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2019-present Mentor, Basavaraj Hanagandi, Graduate student, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2019-present Mentor, Gisela Coro Cruz, Graduate student, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2019-2019 Mentor, Jason Young II, Senior undergraduate student, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2019-present Mentor, Meijuan Zhou (Co-supervise with Dr. Xi Chen), Graduate student, School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
2019-present Mentor, Haofeng Liu (Co-supervise with Dr. Shuiping Gou), Ph.D. students, School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
2019-present Mentor, Shuzhe Chen (Co-supervise with Dr. Shuiping Gou), Graduate students, School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
2019-present Mentor, Qianwen Wang (Co-supervise with Dr. Jie Wu), Graduate student, School of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China
2018-2019 Assistant Mentor, Kai Wang, Ph.D. student, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
2010-2013 Assistant Mentor, Qiuyi Qu, Jing Zhao, and Jialin Yuan, Graduate students, School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
Editorial Activities
2020 Guest Editor for Special Issue “Representation learning in Radiology” in BioMed Research International (IF: 2.197)
2018-present Editorial Board Member for International Journal of Image and Graphics
2016-present Editorial Board Member for Computers in Biology and Medicine (IF: 3.434)
Conference Reviewer
2018-present International Conference on Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
2019-present International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)
2020-present International Conferences of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
2020-present IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)
Journal Reviewer
2020-present Entropy (IF: 2.700)
2020-present International Journal of Fuzzy Systems (IF: 4.406)
2020-present Frontiers in Genetics (IF: 3.789)
2020-present Signal Processing: Image Communication (IF: 2.779)
2020-present PLOS One (IF: 2.740)
2019-present IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.515)
2019-present Cerebral Cortex (IF: 5.043)
2018-present IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IF: 5.180)
2018-present IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IF: 6.685)
2018-present Medical Physics (IF: 3.317)
2018-present Neurocomputing (IF: 4.438)
2018-present Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics (IF: 3.750)
2017-present Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (IF: 4.383)
2017-present Annals of Operations Research (IF: 2.583)
2017-present China Communications (IF: 2.302)
2016-present IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (IF: 4.424)
2016-present Knowledge-Based Systems (IF: 5.921)
2016-present Pattern Recognition (IF: 7.196)
2016-present Physics in Medicine and Biology (IF: 2.883)
2016-present Radiotherapy & Oncology (IF: 4.856)
2016-present Expert Systems with Applications (IF: 5.452)
2016-present Computers in Biology and Medicine (IF: 3.434)
2016-present Machine Vision and Applications (IF: 1.605)
2016-present Journal of Signal Processing Systems (IF: 1.013)
Invited Talks
2020 Webinar, “Reliable Intelligence and Medical Innovation”, School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
2020 Conference, “Reliable Intelligence and Medical Innovation”, International Conference on Intelligent and Green Transportation, Shanghai, China
2020 Webinar, “Reliable Artificial Intelligence in Medicine”, School of Aerospace and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
2019 Seminar, “Reliable Artificial Intelligence in Medicine”, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Chapter at University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2017 Seminar, “Multifaceted radiomics: towards a more practical radiomics”, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China; Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an China
2016 Seminar, “Radiomics: Processing and Development”, Peking University, Beijing, China; Xidian University and Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an China
2016 Seminar, “Multi-objective radiomics model and its application”, UT Southwestern Medical center, Dallas, TX
2014 Workshop, “Lymph node detection and lymph node metastasis diagnosis in gastric cancer”, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
2013 Seminar, “Belief rule based clinical decision support system for diagnosing lymph node metastasis in gastric cancer”, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
2012 Workshop, “Sparse dynamic ensemble selection and its application”, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
2011 Workshop, “Lymph node detection in medical imaging”, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
Publications (See PUBLICATIONS)
