{"id":6396,"date":"2026-01-15T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/doctor-of-engineering\/faculty\/zongwei-zhou\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:30:07","slug":"zongwei-zhou","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/doctor-of-engineering\/faculty\/zongwei-zhou\/","title":{"rendered":"Zongwei Zhou"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zongwei Zhou is an assistant research professor in the Department of Computer Science with a joint appointment in Oncology through the School of Medicine<\/a>\u2019s Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center<\/a>. As a member of the Johns Hopkins Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare<\/a>, Data Science and AI Institute<\/a>, and Center for Imaging Science<\/a>, his research focuses on medical computer vision, language, and graphics for early cancer detection and diagnosis.<\/p>\n

Zhou is best known for developing UNet++, a widely adopted segmentation architecture ranked among the most popular articles in\u00a0IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging<\/em>. He currently serves as a principal investigator on a $2.8 million R01 grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Zhou has received a 2022 Doctoral Dissertation Award from the American Medical Informatics Association, a 2020 Elsevier Medical Image Analysis<\/em> Best Paper Award, and a 2019 Young Scientist Award from the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society. He has additionally been named in Stanford University\u2019s list of \u201cWorld\u2019s Top 2%\u201d scientists every year since 2022.<\/p>\n

Zhou received his PhD in biomedical informatics from Arizona State University in 2021, where he was also honored with the university\u2019s President\u2019s Award for Innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-6396","people","type-people","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nZongwei Zhou - Doctor of Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/faculty\/zongwei-zhou\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zongwei Zhou - Doctor of Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Zongwei Zhou is an assistant research professor in the Department of Computer Science with a joint appointment in Oncology through the School of Medicine\u2019s Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. 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