Perception, Information Propagation, and Temporal Processes
Machine Intelligence and Automatic Pattern Engineering
Industry Research Experience
Head of Quant Research/Machine Learning Scientist, Cooperfund, OakBrook, IL
January 2012 - August 2017
Perception/machine intelligence for finance research.
Research Intern, Decision Support and Machine Intelligence Group, United Technologies Research Center,
September 2011-December 2011
Research on realistic video-based continuous event recognition.
Research Intern, Proteomics Core, Siteman National Cancer Center, Washington University at St. Louis,
May 2010 - July 2010
Research on cleavage sites detection for proteins from massive amount of tandem mass spectrometry
data.
Education
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL, USA
Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Computer Science, 2014. Dissertation titled "Unified Robust Minimax Framework for Regularized Learning"
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China
Master's Degree, Department of Mathematics, 2008
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China
Bachelor's Degree, Department of Physics, 2005
Publications
A Scalable Projective Scaling Algorithm for lp Loss with Convex Penalizations
H. Zhou and Q. Cheng IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNN), 2015.
Discriminative Dictionary Learning via Shared Latent Structure for Object Recognition and Activity Recognition H. Zhou, H. Wang, and A. Finn
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.
A Robust Minimax Framework for Object Recognition with Applications to Images and High Dimensional Data
Q. Cheng and H. Zhou IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2014.
A Multi-scale Bayesian Hypothesis Testing Approach for the Analysis of Prepulse Inhibition Test
H. Zhou, Q. Cheng, H. Yang, H. Xu American Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Vol.2, No.4, July 2012
L-two and L-infinity Consensus in Uncertain High-order Multi-agent Systems with a Leader
L. Mo, Y. Zhou, H. Zhou Control Theory & Applications, 2012, 29(9).
O(N) Implicit Subspace Embedding for Multi-scale Image Segmentation
H. Zhou and Q. Cheng. IEEE International conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011
Fast Selecting Optimal Feature Subset for Multi-class Classification with Applications to High Dimensional Data
Q. Cheng and H. Zhou IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 33 (6), 1217-1233, 2011.
Weighted Kernel Density Estimation of the Prepulse Inhibition Test
H. Zhou, Q. Cheng, H. Yang, H. Xu Journal of Computer Science, 7 (5): 611-618, 2011
Analysis of Traffic Congestion by Network Community Structure
L. Ma, M. Li, X. Jiang, Y. Ma, X. Shen, H. Zhou, Z. Zheng In Proceeding of 2nd ASME International Conference on Information, Networking and Automation, October, 2011, Puerto Rico, USA.
Multi-state Coupling Entropy of Interactive Dynamic Processes
S. Jiang, S. Tang, H. Zhou, S. Pei, S. Yan, Z. Zheng In Proceeding of 2nd ASME International Conference on Information, Networking and Automation, October, 2011, Puerto Rico, USA.
Robust Control of a Class of Singular Systems with Uncertainties
L. Mo, Y. Zhou, H. Zhou Journal of Kunming University of Science and Technolog (natural science), 36 (5): 70-78, 2011.
Sufficient Conditions for Generating Group Level Sparsity in a Robust Minimax Framework
H. Zhou and Q. Cheng In Advances of Neural Information Processing System 23 (NIPS)
Reparameterization Based Consistent Graph Linear Programs
H. Zhou, Q. Cheng, and Z. She ACM 25th Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SIG SAC, Track: Computational Intelligence and Image Analysis), March 2010, Sierre, Switzerland
Weighted Kernel Density Estimation of the Prepulse Inhibition Test
H. Zhou, Q. Cheng, H. Yang, H. Xu In Proceeding of IEEE 2010 6th World Congress on Services, July 2010, Miami, FL USA
Algorithmic Analysis on a Class of Boolean Equations
W. Wei, B. Guo, H. Zhou, Z. Zheng In Proceeding of IEEE 2010 International Conference on Computer Application and System Modeling, 2010, Taiyuan, China
Robust Optimal Consensus for Multi-Agent Systems with Uncertainty and Time-Delay
L. Mo, X. Cao, and H. Zhou In Proceeding of IEEE 3nd International Conference on Computer and Network Technology, 2011, Taiyuan, China
Interactive Chain on Random Erdos-Renyi Network
W. Wei, R. Zhang, H. Zhou, Z. Zheng In Proceeding of IEEE 3nd International Conference on Computer and Network Technology, 2011, Taiyuan, China
Clustering Analysis of Minimum Vertex-cover Problem Using Inter-frustration
B. Guo, Y. Zhang, H. Zhou, Z. Zheng In Proceeding of IEEE 3nd International Conference on Computer and Network Technology, 2011, Taiyuan, China
Self-Organizing Map (SOM) Discovers Feral Malicious Software
C. Langin, H. Zhou, M. Sayeh, S. Rahimi, M. Zargham In Proceeding of IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security, Mar. 2009, Nashville, TN USA
Fast Fusion of Medical Images Based on Bayesian Risk Minimization and Pixon Map
H. Zhou, Q. Cheng, and M. Zargham In Proceeding of 7th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, 2009, Vol. 2, pp.1086-1091
A New Computational Tool for the Post Session Analysis of the Prepulse Inhibition Test in Neuralscience
H. Zhou, H. Yang, H. Xu, Q. Cheng In Proceeding of 7th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, 2009, Vol. 2, pp.1077-1080
Phase Transition in Data Clustering, An Empirical Study
H. Zhou and Q. Cheng In Proceeding of International Conference on Knowledge Intensive Multiagent Systems (KIMAS), 2009, St. Louis, MO, USA
Prediction of Protein Function Using Graph Container and Message Passing
H. Zhou, Q. Cheng, and M. Zargham In Proceeding of International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BIOCOMP08, July 2008, Las Vegas.
Generalized Criteria for Uniqueness of Gibbs Measures
H. Zhou and Z. Zheng In Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Dec. 2008, Florida, FL, USA
A Model to Use Denied Internet Traffic to Indirectly Discover Internal Network Security Problems
C. Langin, H. Zhou, and S. Rahimi In Proceeding of 27th IEEE International Conference on Performance Computing and Communications, Dec. 2008, Austin, Texas, USA
A Mix Strategy Complete Algorithm for K-SAT
H. Zhou and Z. Zheng In Proceeding of International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Information and Computer Science, MACIS, Aug. 2006, Beijing, China
Patent: A Scalable Message Passing Algorithm for Largescale Ridge Regression, Serial No.: 14/209,323, H. Zhou and Q. Cheng