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Jie Zhou

Professor

Office: PM 360
Email: jzhou@niu.edu
Website: http://faculty.cs.niu.edu/~zhou/

Education

  • Ph.D., Concordia University, Canada

Areas of Interest

  • Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
  • Bioimage informatics
  • AI in Biology
  • Neuroinformatics
  • Intelligent Data Analysis

Representative Publications

  • A. Terauchi, P. Yee, M. P. Seiglie, L. Kim, J. C. Pitino, E. Kritzer, Q. Zhang, J. Zhou, Y. Li, D. D. Ginty, W. A. Lee, H. Umemori. "The projection-specific signals that establish functionally segregated dopaminergic synapses". Cell, August 2023.
  • L. Manubens-Gil et al., "BigNeuron: A resource to benchmark and predict best-performing algorithms for automated reconstruction of neuronal morphology", Nature Methods. April 2023
  • Y. Hu et al. "LabGym: A versatile computational tool for automatic quantification of user-defined animal behaviors", Cell Reports Methods. Feb. 2023.
  • T. Kaneko, A. M. Macara, R. Li, Y. Hu, K. Iwasaki, Z. Dunnings, E. Firestone, S. Horvatic, A. Guntur, O. T. Shafer, C-H. Yang, J. Zhou, B. Ye, "Serotonergic modulation enables pathway-specific plasticity in a developing sensory circuit in Drosophila", Neuron. 95: 623-638. 2017.
  • J. Sanders, A. Singh, G. Sterne, B. Ye and J. Zhou, "Learning-guided automatic three dimensional synapse quantification for drosophila neurons", BMC Bioinformatics 2015, 16:177. doi:10.1186/s12859-015-0616-y
  • T. Smafield, V. Pasupuleti, K. Sharma, R. L. Huganir, B. Ye, J. Zhou, "Automatic Dendritic Length Quantification for High Throughput Screening of Mature Neurons", Neuroinformatics, 13:4, pp.443-458, 2015. doi:10.1007/s12021-015-9267-4.
  • J. Zhou, S. Lamichhane, G. Sterne, B. Ye, H. C. Peng, "BIOCAT: a Pattern Recognition Platform for Customizable Biological Image Classification and Annotation", BMC Bioinformatics, 2013, 14:291 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-14-291.
  • J. Zhou, H. C. Peng, and C. Y. Suen, "Data driven decomposition for multi-class classification", Pattern Recognition, 41:67-76, 2008.

Books

"Frontiers in Bioimage Informatics Methodology", Edited by Jie Zhou, Hanchuan Peng, and Marianna Rapsomaniki. World Scientific Publishing Ltd.. In Press.

Awards

  • National Institutes of Health NIH/NIMH R15MH099569, Principal Investigator. "Automatic 3D Quantification of Synapse Distribution in Complex Dendritic Arbor." 2013-2017
  • Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Collaborative Research Travel Grant (CRTG), Principal Investigator. 2012-2013
  • Great Journeys Research Grant, Research and Graduate Studies Development Council, Northern Illinois University, 2011-2012, 2013-2014
  • Pattern Recognition Journal Service Award. 2014
  • National Science Foundation for Student Conference Travel Support. PI. 2018
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