Jia Zou
Scholar

Jia Zou

Google Scholar ID: 7Dnxbj0AAAAJ
Arizona State University
Database Systems for AIAI in Database SystemsData IntegrationDatabase Privacy
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
552
 
H-index
13
 
i10-index
15
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
39
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • NSF CAREER Award (2022)
  • Amazon Research Award (2023)
  • IBM Faculty Award (2021)
  • Published 20+ papers in top venues including VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, SoCC, ICDCS, ICDM
  • Granted 15 patents
  • VLDB 2019 Best Paper Honorable Mention
  • SIGMOD 2020 Research Highlight Award
  • Paper 'ProGQL: A Provenance Graph Query System for Cyber Attack Investigations' accepted to ICDE 2026
  • Full paper on privacy-aware AI model deduplication accepted to SIGMOD 2025
  • Two LLM-based data manipulation papers (with Mayo Clinic) accepted to JAMIA and ICDE 2025 demo track
  • IDNet synthetic identity dataset downloaded 7000+ times on Zenodo; paper accepted to IEEE Big Data 2024 (Industrial and Government Track)
  • NSF grant as sole PI: $249,998 (total $600,000) for privacy-focused database architecture
  • Received $9,000 in OpenAI credits for LLM-based data transformation research
  • Won 2024 Mayo Clinic and ASU Faculty Summer Residency Award
Research Experience
  • Research Scientist at Rice University, Department of Computer Science, prior to 2019
  • Researcher at IBM Research - China before joining Rice
  • Leading the CACTUS lab at ASU focusing on data-intensive systems and AI/ML integration
  • Collaborating with TAMU-CT on an NSF-funded project on privacy-enhanced database architecture for ML applications
  • Collaborating with Mayo Clinic on LLM-based data transformation and manipulation infrastructure