Xiaomu Zhou is currently faculty in the Informatics department at Northeastern University.  Previously, she was a faculty member at Rutgers in the School of Communication and Information. Her dissertation research examined informal information use in a hospital setting, with a focus on patient psychosocial information.Xiaomu has a BS in computer science and technology, Shandong University, and a MS in computer science and application, Beijing Institute of Technology.Thesis:

• Information in Healthcare: An Ethnographic Analysis of a Hospital Ward (2010)