Distinguished Alumnus Award 2007

Jun Zhu (PhD Statistics and Genetics 1989) received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences on November 8, 2007 at North Carolina State University. This award recognizes alumni whose exceptional achievements in business, education, research or public service have brought honor and distinction to the College and University.

After earning his Ph.D. in 1989 and completing his postdoctoral work in the Department of Statistics at NC State, he returned to China, where he became an associate professor in the Agronomy Department at Zhejiang Agricultural University. He served as Dean of Zhejiang’s College of Agricultural and Biotechnology from 1999 until 2005, when he was named Vice President of Zhejiang University. He is also the Director of the Institute of Bioinformatics since 2001. He has extensively published in statistical genetics area, and has developed software for quantitative genetics and bioinformatics.