Shuo Zhou

Education

• MS, Cornell University
• BS, Tsinghua University - China

About Me

• Hometown: Beijing, China
• Field of Study: Personal Health Informatics
• PhD Advisor: Timothy Bickmore

Biography

Shuo Zhou is a PhD student in the Personal Health Informatics program at Northeastern University's Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, advised by Professor Timothy Bickmore. A native of Beijing, China, Shuo earned her Bachelor of Science from Tsinghua University in China and her Master of Science from Cornell University.

Shuo’s research area includes personal health informatics, and she is in the Relational Agents Group at Northeastern. She is interested in promoting health behavior changes using embodied conversational agents.

What are the specifics of your graduate education (thus far)?

I received my master's degree from Cornell University in human factors and ergonomics, and I am currently pursuing my PhD degree in personal health informatics.

What are your research interests?

My current research interests are promoting health counseling and health education using conversational virtual characters.

What’s one problem you’d like to solve with your research/work?

My dissertation research is about improving risk communication using embodied conversational virtual characters.

What aspect of what you do is most interesting?

I am studying how health communication can be facilitated by conversational virtual characters, and how the interaction process and information displayed can be improved to achieve better health outcomes.

Where did you grow up or spend your most defining years?

I grew up in Beijing, China.

Where did you study for your undergraduate degree?

My undergraduate degree is about vehicle engineering and car design, which leads to my current interest in human centered design.

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