Dr. Zhou was jointly appointed by School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine in 2024. Dr. Zhou received his post-doctoral training as a Medical Statistician at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. He earned his Ph.D. in Data Science from School of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. Before joining HKU, Dr. Zhou worked as Assistant Professor at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

Dr Zhou has research interests in big data analytics, medical statistics, primary care and preventive health, case-control and cohort studies, predictive and decision analytics, pharmacoepidemiology and aetiology of chronic diseases (including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, etc. for family medicine patients). He also has study interests in casual treatment effects analysis (double machine learning), social epidemiology and adverse online events identification with text mining, high-dimension data representation and latent cluster pattern learning in large-scale health datasets. Recently, he is conducting machine learning analytics for illness trajectories and palliative care, especially progression pattern analysis/visualization, end stage risk assessment following chronic diseases, and non-invasive cancer screening. His studies were published with Gut, JNCCN, EHJ-CVP, JAHA, NPJ Digital Medicine, etc.