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Shi Zhou is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL) with a focus on Network Science. He is a core member of the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence and a founding member of the Information Decision Systems (IDS) Research Group. His research includes network science, social network analysis, epidemic information spreading, opinion dynamics, cybersecurity, complex network theory, and Internet topology routing. In 2007, he received the prestigious Royal Academy Engineering / EPSRC Research Fellowship, which supports multidisciplinary work on large-scale complex networks. He is known for discovering the 'rich-club' phenomenon in Internet topology, which is recognized as a key structural feature of networked systems, including global aviation and brain networks. His hybrid epidemic theory has been applied to model computer worm outbreaks and the spread of HIV in immune cells within the human body.