Dr Zhou is a lecturer in the Zhejiang University/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute at the Zhejiang University, International Campus. She has a background in Civil Engineering and specializes in Transport and Structure Engineering. She obtained her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2016. She completed her Master degree in Structure Engineering from Dalian University of Technology. Dr Zhou’s research focuses on Traffic operation and simulation, Intelligent transportation system, Structure health monitoring Before joining ZJUI, she worked as a lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University.