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Attention 2025 CS Graduates

Important Note: For our 2025 CS Graduates, please read our CS Commencement Ceremony webpage for the most updated information. 

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Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering

James Zou

Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering
I am an Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. I work on making AImore 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 two Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Awards, the Sloan Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, a Top Ten Clinical Achievement Award and faculty awards from Google, Adobe and Amazon.