Xiao Zhou (周晓)

Hi, I am an Associate Professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Before joining SJTU, I spent two and a half years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

I received my PhD from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University. I obtained both my bachelor's and master's degrees from the Department of Automation, Xi'an Jiaotong University.

My research interests focus on medical artificial intelligence, particularly AI for cancer diagnosis and treatment. My work covers areas including computational pathology, multi-omics, and related topics in biomedical AI.

I am currently recruiting PhD students for 2027. If you are interested, please feel free to contact me via email at zhou_xiao@sjtu.edu.cn.

Github  /  Huggingface

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Hugging Face Datasets & Benchmarks

KEEP: The dataset of disease knowledge and pathology vision-language semantic groups for KEEP KidRare: A Pathology WSI dataset for Rare Pediatric subtyping

Selected Research

SpotSound: Enhancing Large Audio-Language Models with Fine-Grained Temporal Grounding
Luoyi Sun, Xiao Zhou, Zeqian Li, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang, Weidi Xie
Preprint, 2026
Boosting Pathology Foundation Models via Few-shot Prompt-tuning for Rare Cancer Subtyping
Dexuan He*, Xiao Zhou*, Wenbin Guan*, Liyuan Zhang, Xiaoman Zhang, Sinuo Xu, Ge Wang, Lifeng Wang, Xiaojun Yuan, Jing Ma, Xin Sun, Yanfeng Wang, Kun Sun, Ya Zhang, Weidi Xie
Nature Communications, 2026
Knowledge-enhanced Pretraining for Vision-language Pathology Foundation Model on Cancer Diagnosis
Xiao Zhou, Luoyi Sun, Dexuan He, Wenbin Guan, Ge Wang, Ruifen Wang, Lifeng Wang, Xiaojun Yuan, Xin Sun, Ya Zhang, Kun Sun, Yanfeng Wang, Weidi Xie
Cancer Cell, 2026
An agentic System for Rare Disease Diagnosis with Traceable Reasoning
Weike Zhao, Chaoyi Wu, Yanjie Fan, Pengcheng Qiu, Xiaoman Zhang, Yuze Sun, Xiao Zhou, Shuju Zhang, Yu Peng, Yanfeng Wang, Xin Sun, Ya Zhang, Yongguo Yu, Kun Sun, Weidi Xie
Nature, 2026
Large-vocabulary Segmentation for Medical Images with Text Prompts
Ziheng Zhao, Yao Zhang, Chaoyi Wu, Xiaoman Zhang, Xiao Zhou, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang, Weidi Xie
npj Digital Medicine, 2025
RadIR: A Scalable Framework for Multi-grained Medical Image Retrieval via Radiology Report Mining
Tengfei Zhang, Ziheng Zhao, Chaoyi Wu, Xiao Zhou, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang, Weidi Xie
MICCAI, 2025
Knowledge-Enhanced Visual-Language Pretraining for Computational Pathology
Xiao Zhou, Xiaoman Zhang, Chaoyi Wu, Ya Zhang, Weidi Xie, Yanfeng Wang
ECCV (Oral), 2024
Can GPT-4V(ision) Serve Medical Applications? Case Studies on GPT-4V for Multimodal Medical Diagnosis
Chaoyi Wu*, Jiayu Lei*, Qiaoyu Zheng*, Weike Zhao*, Weixiong Lin*, Xiaoman Zhang*, Xiao Zhou*, Ziheng Zhao*, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang, Weidi Xie
Technical Report, 2023
Adaptive Sparse Pairwise Loss for Object Re-Identification
Xiao Zhou, Yujie Zhong, Zhen Cheng, Fan Liang, Lin Ma
CVPR, 2023
Tumor Fractions Deciphered from Circulating Cell-free DNA Methylation for Cancer Early Diagnosis
Xiao Zhou*, Zhen Cheng*, Mingyu Dong, Qi Liu, Weiyang Yang, Min Liu, Junzhang Tian, Weibin Cheng
Nature Communications, 2022
LIRNet: Local Integral Regression Network for Both Strongly and Weakly Supervised Nuclei Detection
Xiao Zhou, Zhen Cheng, Miao Gu, Fei Chang
BIBM, 2020

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