Weihua Zhou

Weihua Zhou is a Tenured Associate Professor at Michigan Technological University in the College of Computing, with affiliations in Applied Computing, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences. He holds a PhD from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, an MS and B.Eng. from Wuhan University, and completed postdoctoral research at Emory University.

• Academic Positions: Tenured Associate Professor (2025–present), Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (2019–2025) at Michigan Tech; Nina Bell Suggs Endowed Professorship (2015–2019) at the University of Southern Mississippi.
• Research Interests: Focuses on medical imaging and health informatics, particularly machine learning applications in cardiovascular diagnosis, osteoporosis risk stratification, and senile dementia early detection. Additional work includes radiomics for COVID-19 severity assessment, federated learning in medical segmentation, and deep learning for proximal femur strength prediction.
• Scientific Awards: USM Nina Bell Suggs Endowed Professorship, USM College of Arts and Sciences Scholarly Research Award, American Heart Association Research Leaders Academy (2017, 2018), USM Butch Oustalet Distinguished Professorship Research Award.
• Lab & Tools: Leads the Medical Imaging & Informatics Lab (MIILab-MTU) and contributes to the NSF/MRI GPU Cluster. Open-sourced tools include KD4COVID19 for radiomics analysis and ECGTools for ECG classification.