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Zhou Zhou is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, at the University of Sydney. He earned his PhD in Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in April 2015, with Professor Erhan Bayraktar as thesis advisor and dissertation titled "Topics in Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing and Optimal Stopping." He previously obtained a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in June 2010. Zhou Zhou's career trajectory includes serving as Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney from February 2018 to December 2021, Postdoctoral Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan from September to December 2017, and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, from September 2015 to August 2017. He has extensive teaching experience, having lectured and tutored courses such as Arbitrage Pricing in Continuous Time, Optimisation and Financial Mathematics, and Stochastic Processes at these institutions.

Zhou Zhou's research focuses on mathematical finance, time-inconsistent stopping problems, stochastic control, optimal stopping games, mean-field games, and utility maximization. His publications feature in leading journals including SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Mathematical Finance, Mathematics of Operations Research, and Finance and Stochastics. Key works include "Optimal Relative Performance Criteria in Mean Field Contribution Games" (Mathematics of Operations Research, 48(4), 2233-2266, 2023), "Stability of Equilibria in Time-inconsistent Stopping Problems" (SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 61(2), 674-696, 2023, with Erhan Bayraktar and Zhenhua Wang), "Time-Inconsistency, Precommitment and Equilibrium Strategies for a Stackelberg Game" (SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 61(2), 361-397, 2023), "A Time-Inconsistent Dynkin Game: from Intra-personal to Inter-personal Equilibria" (Finance and Stochastics, 26(2), 301-334, 2022, with Yu-Jui Huang), and "Singular Perturbation of Zero-Sum Linear-Quadratic Stochastic Differential Games" (SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 60(1), 48-80, 2022, with Beniamin Goldys and James Yang). As co-Chief Investigator, he contributes to an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2022-2025, $390,000) with Ivan Guo, Anna Aksamit, Kihun Nam, and Marek Rutkowski, and a University of Sydney-NUS Partnership Collaboration Award (2020, $20,000) with Chao Zhou. He has supervised PhD, MPhil, and Honours students and serves as a referee for journals such as Annals of Applied Probability, Mathematical Finance, and SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics. Awards received include the SIAM Student Travel Award (2014), Rackham International Student Fellowship (2013), AMS MRC Travel Funding (2016), and several scholarships from Nankai University.