Zhi-Hua Zhou

Award Recipient

Zhi-Hua Zhou is Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Nanjing University, where he has been on the faculty since 2001. He is currently serving as the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, and Deputy Director of the National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology. He is the Founding Director of the LAMDA Group.

Zhou’s research interests are in artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining, with outstanding contributions to ensemble methods, weakly supervised learning, and multi-label learning. He has authored the books "Ensemble Methods: Foundations and Algorithms" and "Machine Learning (in Chinese)", and published more than 200 papers in top-tier journals or conferences. Many of his inventions have been successfully applied in industry.

Zhou is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM, AAAI, AAAS, IAPR (International Association of Pattern Recognition), and CCF (China Computer Federation). He has received the National Natural Science Award of China, the PAKDD Distinguished Contribution Award, the IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award, the IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award, the Microsoft Professorship Award, and fourteen international paper/competition awards.