Her research aims to improve human decision making and knowledge management through the design of intelligent technologies and understanding of human behavior. Her current research interests include deception detection, natural language processing, mobile web adaptation, ontology learning, and online social networks. Dr. Zhou has authored and/or co-authored over 50 referred articles in journals such as Journal of Management Information Systems, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, Information & Management, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Decision Support Systems, International Journal on Human-Computer Studies, Group Decision and Negotiation, and Small Group Research . She serves on the editorial board of six international journals. She is a member of UMBC Center for Cybersecurity.