Rate My Professor Na Zou

Na Zou has garnered significant recognition for her scholarly achievements. In 2025, she received the Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award and the Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Houston. Other honors include the AI in Research Award Finalist from Women in AI Awards, Best Paper Award at the 2nd INFORMS Conference on Quality, Statistics and Reliability, NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program award, Best Student Paper Finalist at AMIA 2023 Symposium, and election as president of the IISE Data Analytics and Information Systems Division. She secured a $169,982 NSF CISE-MSI Research Expansion Award in 2024 for the collaborative project "Towards Robust and Human-Aligned Deep Learning for Medical-Sensor Time Series," aimed at enhancing deep learning models for healthcare wearables, including Parkinson’s monitoring and elderly fall detection, in partnership with North Carolina State University and UT Rio Grande Valley. With over 3,280 citations documented on Google Scholar, her publications appear in prestigious venues such as Technometrics, IISE Transactions, ACM Transactions, IEEE Transactions, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, and KDD. Na Zou has contributed to public discourse through media interviews on trustworthy AI and AI in government operations, and serves in leadership roles in professional societies.