Xin Zou got his PhD degree in statistical signal processing from the University of Birmingham. He worked in the same department for another two years as a research fellow. Then he changed his research interest to bioinformatics and took two postdoc positions in Ulster University and Sheffield University, respectively, before he came to Kent University.
His principal research interests lie in the field of bioinformatics, omics data processing (e.g. metabolomics, proteomics and transcriptomics), statistical signal processing, machine learning, pattern recognition and computational neuroscience (neural network dynamics modelling study).
He is currently working as a bioinformatician in the Medway Metabonomics Research Group (MMRG). His main job is to analyse the NMR and MS metabolomics data collected in the group.