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Dr. Na Zou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Houston, affiliated with the Cullen College of Engineering. Her research focuses on machine learning, network modeling, and healthcare informatics, with an emphasis on fairness, interpretability, and trustworthiness. She has received prestigious awards including the NSF CAREER Award and the Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award (2025). Her work spans applications in healthcare, bioinformatics, and dynamic network analysis.
Dr. Zou holds leadership roles, including presidency of the Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Division of IISE. She advises PhD students and has secured grants from NIH and NSF, including a 2024 NIH AIM AHEAD award for trustworthy AI in heart transplants. Her research has been featured in top conferences (ICML, NeurIPS, KDD) and journals (IEEE Transactions, Technometrics).
- Education: Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (not explicitly stated in provided text).
Her research interests include shortcut learning, transfer learning, and brain connectivity modeling. Recent work addresses fairness in graph neural networks and bias mitigation in healthcare algorithms. She actively participates in media discussions on AI ethics and policy implications.
