Rate My Professor James Zou

Zou's contributions have been recognized with prestigious awards such as the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2021), NSF CAREER Award (2020), two Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator awards (2017 and 2023), the RECOMB Best Paper Award (2019), and the ICML Outstanding Paper Award (2025) for CollabLLM. He has received faculty research awards from Google, Amazon, Adobe, Apple, and Genentech. Notable publications include "Video-based AI for beat-to-beat assessment of cardiac function" in Nature (2020), "Data Shapley: Equitable valuation of data for machine learning" at ICML (2019), "Man is to computer programmer as woman is to homemaker? Debiasing word embeddings" at NeurIPS (2016), "Word embeddings quantify 100 years of gender and ethnic stereotypes" in PNAS (2018), and recent advances like "The Virtual Lab" in Nature (2025) and "Agents4Science" in Nature Biotechnology (2025). His innovations, such as EchoNet AI which received FDA clearance, are transforming clinical practice, while his work influences policy on fair and accountable AI in healthcare. Zou teaches courses like Foundation Models for Healthcare and Deep Learning in Genomics and Biomedicine, mentoring numerous PhD students and postdocs.