He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He was a visiting scholar at Arizona State University in 2009. He is currently a Professor and the Vice Dean of the School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering in Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, and the founding professor of the Institute of Science on Brain Inspired Intelligence.

Professor Zhou made original contributions in intelligent edge computing, significantly contributing to both efficient deep learning methods and engineering applications. He has authored or co-authored over 60 papers in prestigious international journals and conferences, including IEEE TCAS-1, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TED, IEEE TBME, IEEE GRSL, IEEE SPL and ICML, AAAI, CVPR. His book of Deep Learning on Edge Computing Devices is one of the earliest books covering multidisciplinary topics from algorithm to hardware design of embedded AI systems. He also held over a dozen patents, and has given numerous keynote speeches and invited talks, chaired several conferences. He was awarded the Outstanding Scientist of Chinese Institute of Electronics in 2021.