Before moving to UA, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong during 2012~2016. Dr. Zhou received his B.S. degree in Automotive Engineering and the M.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2005 and 2007, M.S. degree in Statistics, and Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 2010 and 2011.His research focuses on advanced industrial data analytics for engineering decision making and system performance improvement. Application areas of his research include energy storage systems, semiconductor manufacturing, nanomaterial fabrication, telecommunications, etc.