Biography

Research and Academic Appointments

2025 -- present  Tenure-Track Associate Professor, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2019 -- 2024  Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich
   Advisors: Prof. Mustafa Khammash and Dr. Ankit Gupta

Education  

2014 -- 2019  PhD Student (Outstanding Graduate), School of Mathematical Science, Zhejiang University
   Advisor: Prof. Chuanhou Gao
   Co-Advisors: Prof. Arjan van der Schaft (University of Groningen)
                            Prof. Bayu Jayawardhana (University of Groningen)
                            Prof. Erik Ydstie (CMU)
                            Prof. Roger Brockett (Harvard)
2010 -- 2014  Bachelor Student, School of Mathematical Science, Zhejiang University

Media Coverage

July, 2024                    ETH Zurich reported on our novel approach for identifying intracellular reaction processes in their news release. [Link]
Dec., 2019 I was welcomed and interviewed by ETH Zurich. [Link]

Old News

2023
  • October 26: I gave a talk titled "A divide-and-conquer approach for analyzing high-dimensional noisy gene expression networks" at the Seminar on the Mathematics of Reaction Networks. [video]
  • October 3: I gave a talk titled "A divide-and-conquer approach for analyzing high-dimensional stochastic reaction network systems" at a department seminar in the Department of Biosystems Sicnence and Engineering, at ETH Zurich.
  • August 1: Our paper titled "Stochastic Weak Passivity for Weakly Stabilizing Stochastic Systems with Nonvanishing Noise" was accepted to Systems & Control Letters.
  • June 27: I gave a talk titled "A Scalable Approach for Solving Chemical Master Equations based on Modularization and Filtering" at the 14th International Conference on Monte Carlo Methods and Applications.
  • February 12: "Hello world!"  The lazy scientist Zhou Fang finally managed to set up his personal website.
2022
  • November 11: Our paper titled "On the Relation between ω-Limit Set and Boundaries of Mass-Action Chemical Reaction Networks" was accepted to Automatica.
  • October 10: Our paper titled "Convergence of Regularized Particle Filters for Stochastic Reaction Networks" was accepted to the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis.
  • July 31: Our paper titled "Efficacy of Regularized Multitask Learning Based on SVM Models" was accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.
  • July 17--22: Zhou gave a talk at the 15th International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing in Linz, Austria.
  • June 28: Our paper titled "Stochastic Filtering for Multiscale Stochastic Reaction Networks based on Hybrid Approximations" was accepted to the Journal of Computational Physics.
  • April 3: Our paper titled "Noise-to-state Exponentially Stabilizing (State, Input)-disturbed CSTRs with Non-vanishing Noise" was accepted to Automatica.
2021
  •  Zhou is too lazy to list earlier news.