Dr. Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. She is a member of the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health. Prior to joining the Department, she was a biostatician at the Genomic Institute of Novartis Research Foundation.

The general research interest of Dr. Zhou is to develop and apply statistical methodologies to clinical and biomedical studies. She has developed a novel Bayesian hierarchical model to classify missense mutations of disease genes. She has written a software for accurate minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) estimation based on growth curves generated from Phoenix Automated Susceptibility Testing System. Her current research interest includes: sampling issues in observational studies; cut-point for ordinal independent variables; normalization in expression studies; statistical methods for screening experiments.