G. Tong Zhou - Professor

Associate Vice Provost for International Initiatives
Georgia Tech


Dr. G. Tong Zhou grew up in Tianjin, China, attended the Tianjin Nankai High School and received her B.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation from the Tianjin University in July 1989. From September 1989 to May 1995, she was with the University of Virginia (UVA), where she obtained her M.Sc. degree in Biophysics/Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in May 1992, M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in January 1993, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in January 1995. She was awarded the 1995 Allan Talbott Gwathmey Memorial Award for outstanding research in the physical sciences at UVA based on her Ph.D. dissertation.

From June to August 1995, she was a visiting researcher at the Tokyo Institute of Technology on a National Science Foundation Fellowship. She joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech in September 1995 as an Assistant Professor and became a Full Professor in August 2005. During January - July 2001, she was a Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences Guest Professor at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.

In 1997, Dr. Zhou received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. She is also a recipient of the 2000 Meritor Teaching Excellence Award at Georgia Tech. In 2012, she was honored with Georgia Tech's inaugural Steven A. Denning Award for Global Engagement. Also in 2012, Dr. Zhou was elevated to IEEE Fellow status "for contributions to the analysis of nonlinear signals and systems."


Detailed biographical information.

China Summer Program - A Georgia Tech faculty-led undergraduate study abroad program open to students from all U.S. colleges and universities.


Contacting information:
G. Tong Zhou / Georgia Tech School of ECE, 777 Atlantic Dr., Atlanta, GA 30332-0250, USA / +1 (404) 894-2907