Zuozhu Liu

Associate Professor 

Affiliation: ZJU-UIUC Institute, Zhejiang University
Affiliation: State Key Lab of CAD & CG (College of Computer Science and Technology); Stomatology Hospital (School of Medicine), Zhejiang University
Office: ZJUI Building C421
Email: zuozhuliu@intl.zju.edu.cn

Biography

Zuozhu is an associate professor at ZJU-UIUC Institute, Zhejiang University (Assistant Prof. 2020.09-2026.07). He is also with the State Key Lab of CAD & CG and the Stomatology Hospital of Zhejiang University. His primary research focuses on multimodal foundation models and agentic systems, AI for health and biology, and self-evolving AI systems.

Zuozhu was a visiting scholar at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2025, hosted by Prof. Jimeng Sun. He worked at the Department of Statistics & Data Science at National University of Singapore as a Postdoc Research Fellow (with Prof. Alexandre Thiery) during 2019-2020. He received his PhD degree from Singapore University of Technology and Design in 2019, under the supervision of Prof. Tony Q.S. Quek (FSAEng, FIEEE) and Prof. Shaowei LIN. He obtained the B.Eng from Zhejiang University in 2015, College of Information Science and Electrical Engineering. He visited and worked at the University of Notre Dame, the AIP Center at RIKEN in Japan (with Dr. Emtiyaz Khan), and Preferred Networks Inc, etc. Zuozhu passed the Level III exam of CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst).
In 2020/2023, Zuozhu established the Zhejiang University-Angelalign Inc. R&D center for Intelligent Healthcare, focused on AI for digital dentistry. 

Notes: For students who want to apply for master and PhD, or undergraduates who want to do research or Final Year Project in our lab, please feel free to contact me. Also, please send me an email if you are interested to join us as a Research Assistant or Postdoc Research Fellow. 

Research Interest

Multimodal Foundation Models and Agents, AI for Health and Biology, Self-improving AI systems, Clinical Translation

News

  • 🎉2026/09 Congrats to Dr. Wen Ma for obtaining her PhD degree!
  • 🎉2026/09 1 co-authored paper accpeted by Nature Reviews Computing!
  • 🎉2026/08 Congrats to Dr. Ruizhe Chen for obtaining his PhD degree! Ruizhe will join the Qwen team!
  • 🎉2026/08 5 papers accepted by EMNLP 2026 Main/Findings, congrats to Sontao, Mawen, Zhiting, Fucheng and Zhaopeng!
  • 🎉2026/07 2 papers accepted by ACM MM 2026, congrats to Ruizhe, Mawen!
  • 🎉2026/07 Congrats to Zhaopeng and Yichen for obtaining the Master’s degree! All the best for their PhD studies at NUS and HK PloyU!
  • 🎉 2026/06 2 papers accepted by ECCV 2026, congrats to Jiaxiang, Xiaotian!
  • 🎉2026/06 3 papers accepted by MICCAI 2026, congrats to Zhiting, Zihan, Yixin!
  • 🎉2026/06 1 paper accepted by Nature Communications, congrats to Zijie, Xiwei!
  • 🎉2026/05 2 papers early accepted by MICCAI 2026, congrats to Yuan, Huimin!
  • 🎉2026/05 1 paper accepted by ICML 2026, congrats to Zikai!
  • 🎉2026/05 1 paper accepted by Dental Research, congrats to Xiwei and Zijie!
  • 🎉2026/08 Congrats to Dr. Jianhong Bai for obtaining his PhD degree! Jianhong will join ByteDance Seed!
  • 🎉2026/04 3 papers accepted by ACL 2026, congrats to Songtao, Zhaopeng, Xiaotian!
  • 🎉2026/02 2 papers accepted by CVPR 2026, congrats to Jianhui, Songtao, Xiaotian and Yichen!
  • 🎉2026/02 1 paper accepted by Patterns, congrats to Songtao and Tianxiang!
  • 🎉2026/01 2 papers accepted by ICLR 2026, congrats to Zhiting and Zijie!
  • 🎉2025/12 1 paper accepted by AAAI 2026, congrats to Yuan!
  • 🎉2025/10 Our paper was in the finalist of ICCV Best Paper Award 2025, congrats to Jianhong!
  • 🎉2025/10 2 paper accepted by NeurIPS, congrats to Xiaotang!
  • 🎉2025/08 Zuozhu gives an Early Career Spotlight Talk at IJCAI 2025!
  • 🎉2025/08 4 papers accepted by EMNLP 2025 Main/Findings, congrats to Zikai, Zhaopeng and Hanjun!
  • 🎉2025/05 4 long papers accepted by ACL 2025, congrats to Ruizhe, Songtao, Zhaopeng and Yichen!
  • 🎉2025/05 3 papers got early accepted by MICCAI 2025, congrats to Yuan, Songtao and Lingjie!
  • 🎉2025/04 1 paper accepted by IJCAI 2025, congrats to Songtao!
  • 🎉2025/01 3 papers accepted by ICLR 2025, congrats to Ruizhe, Zhiting and Jianhong!

Join Zuozhu-lab

Openings: We are hiring new postdocs in AI for health – released 2025.08

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