Joanna Zou

Joanna Zou is a Research Scientist in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, affiliated with the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) program. Her research focuses on Bayesian modeling within stochastic dynamical systems, with applications to structural dynamics, offshore wind energy, and biomedical engineering. She is advised by Youssef Marzouk at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS).

Education:

• M.S. in Structural Engineering, Stanford University
• B.S. in Civil Engineering, Columbia University

Research Interests: Bayesian inference, Gaussian process models, stochastic systems, structural health monitoring, and physics-informed machine learning.

Article Trends: Her work spans computational methods for structural analysis (e.g., offshore wind turbines, residential wood frame structures) and interdisciplinary applications in healthcare (e.g., gait monitoring using vibration data). Key themes include surrogate modeling, uncertainty quantification, and data-driven approaches in engineering systems.

Awards: No awards explicitly listed.

Advising & Grants: No student advisement or grant details provided in the text.

Labs/Teams: Affiliated with LIDS and collaborates across MIT’s CSE community.