学习经历
2017-2020 香港城市大学 博士
2014-2017 中南大学 硕士
2010-2014 中南大学 学士
工作经历
2022-至今 中山大学公共卫生学院 副教授
2020-2022 香港大学自杀防止与研究中心 博士后
研究方向
研究聚焦于采用数据科学和深度学习算法，开展行为健康、疾病发生与预后、系统生物学方向等的研究。主持国家科技重大专项，国家自然科学基金，广东省自然科学基金等课题5项，相关研究成果发表于Communications Medicine, Social Science & Medicine, BMC Medicine, APL Bioengineering, IEEE TCYB/TCSS/TITS/SMC等，获香港行为健康协会杰出博士论文奖，香港城市大学杰出学术表现奖等奖励。
科研项目
中山大学“百人计划”人才引进项目，30万，主持
广东省自然科学基金面上项目，县域医共体视域下医疗资源最优化配置研究，10万，主持
国家自然科学基金青年项目C类，基于知识图谱的心肌梗死风险预测与智能健康管理研究，30万，主持
国家科技“四大慢病”重大专项青年培育计划，数智技术驱动的主要不良心血管事件风险预测与健康管理，60万，主持
代表成果
1. Xu, Z., Chan, C. S., Zhang, Q., Xu, Y., He, L., Cheung, F., ... & Yip, S.F.P.* (2022). Network-based prediction of the disclosure of suicidal ideation in online counseling sessions. Communications Medicine, 2, 156.
2. Xu, Z., Xu, Y., Cheung, F., Cheng, M., Lung, D., Law, Y. W., ... & Yip, S.F.P.* (2021). Detecting suicide risk using knowledge-aware natural language processing and counseling service data. Social Science & Medicine, 283, 114176.
3. Xu, Z., Zhang, J., Zhang, Q.*, Xuan, Q., & Yip, S.F.P. (2021). A Comorbidity Knowledge-Aware Model for Disease Prognostic Prediction. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.
4. Xu, Z., Yang, J., Zhang, Q.*, & Yip, S.F.P.* (2021). Risk of suicide after a self-poisoning episode: a self-controlled case series study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 56(12): 2155-2162.
5. Xu, Z., Cheng, W., Zhang, Q.*, and Tian, J. Mass screening for low bone density in society using basic check-up items. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2022.
6. Christien KH Li+, Zhongzhi Xu+ (co-first), Jeffery Ho, et al. Association of NPAC score with survival after acute myocardial infarction. Atherosclerosis, 2020.
7. Xu, Z., Zhang, Q.*, Li, W., Li, M., & Yip, S.F.P. (2019). Individualized prediction of depressive disorder in the elderly: a multitask deep learning approach. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 132, 103973.
8. Xu, Z., Yang, J., Kai Lau, K., Yip, S.F.P., Wong, I. C., & Zhang, Q.* (2020). Understanding the Association Between Antidepressants and the Risk of Being Diagnosed with Dementia in Older People: A Self-Controlled Case Series Study. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, (2020), 1-10.
9. Xu, Z., Q. Zhang, D. Chen and Y. He, "Characterizing the Connectivity of Railway Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 1491-1502, April 2020
10. Xu, Z., Zhang, Q.* & Yip, S.F.P*. (2020). Predicting post-discharge self-harm incidents using disease comorbidity network: a retrospective machine learning study. Journal of Affective Disorders. 277. 402 - 409.
11. Mengzhuo Guo, Zhongzhi Xu, Qingpeng Zhang, Xiuwu Liao, and Jiapeng Liu. 2021. Deciphering Feature Effects on Decision-Making in Ordinal Regression Problems: An Explainable Ordinal Factorization Model. ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data 16, 3, Article 59 (June 2022)
12. Zhongzhi Xu, Christian S. Chan, Jerry Fung, Christy Tsang, Qingpeng Zhang, Yucan Xu, Florence Cheung, Weibin Cheng, Evangeline Chan, Paul S.F. Yip*. Developing and validating a parser-based suicidality detection model in text-based mental health services. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2023.
13. Hao Ren, Fengshi Jing, Zhurong Chen, Shan He, Jiandong Zhou, Le Liu, Ran Jing, Wanmin Lian, Junzhang Tian, Qingpeng Zhang*, Zhongzhi Xu*, Weibin Cheng*. CheXMed: A multimodal learning algorithm for pneumonia detection in the elderly. Information Sciences. 0020-0255. 119854. 2023.
14. Yuxie Xiao, Lulu Lin, Junjie Wang, Qian Tan, Hanchu Zhou, Yi Yang,* Zhongzhi Xu,*. Fatal Crashes and Rare Events Logit Regression: An Exploratory Empirical Study. Frontiers in Public Health. 2023.
15. L Lin, M Cheng, Y Guo, X Cao, W Tang, X Xu, W Cheng*, Z Xu* Early discharge hospital at home as alternative to routine hospital care for older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC medicine 22 (1), 250, 2024
16. J Wang, F Liao, J Wu, Z Xu, Z Gao Resilience assessment of intercity transport in a two-city system. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 189, 103654, 2024
17. X Xu, F Jing, H Zhong, L Lin, T Gao, W Cheng*, Z Xu*. Synergistic impact of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and physical activity on incident depression: Evidence from a prospective cohort and genome-wide data. Journal of Affective Disorders 378, 235-241, 2025
18. Z Lyu, J Yang, Z Xu*, W Wang, W Cheng, KL Tsui, Q Zhang*. Predicting the risk of ischemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation using heterogeneous drug–protein–disease network-based deep learning. APL bioengineering 9 (2), 2025
19. Mengyuan Cheng+, Lulu Lin+, Xiaowen Cao+, Weiming Tang, Xin Xu, Xiaoxue Zhang, Yongshun Huang, Junzhang Tian, Zhongzhi Xu*, Weibin Cheng*,Effectiveness of admission-avoidance hospital at home as alternative to routine hospital care in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Global Transitions,2025,ISSN 2589-7918.
20. Lulu Lin+, Xueqing Chen+, Chuanhui Liu, Qiting Wang, Weishan Lian, Xin Xu, Yawei Guo, Huiyuan Zhong, Jiangming Zhong, Nan Zhao, Weibin Cheng*, Peng Shu*, Zhongzhi Xu*. Comparative Efficacy of Topical Interventions for Facial Photoaging: A Network Meta-Analysis. Scientific Reports.10.1038/s41598-025-12597-0. 2025.
奖励奖项
李文，陈思遥，丁扬阳。全国大学生统计建模大赛二等奖，2023，指导老师。
李东晓、田星远、张心悦等。第三届海南自贸港未来英才创新创业项目大赛一等奖，2024，指导老师。
范冰莹、邓雨荷、李文。中山大学“第十届全国大学生基础医学创新研究暨实验设计大赛“优秀奖，2024，指导老师。
黄伶羽等。全国大学生创新创业大赛，校级立项，1万，2024，指导老师。
林璐潞。研究生创新项目，校级立项，1万，2025，指导老师。
学术兼职
中国心胸血管麻醉学会--大数据分会, 委员，2024-2029
广东省预防医学会--健康医疗大数据专业委员会，委员, 2023-2028
广东省预防医学会--人工智能应用专业委员会，委员, 2023-2028
广东省卫生统计学会--医学人工智能与大数据专业委员会，委员, 2025-2029
招生方向
招收流行病学，卫生统计学，管理学，计算机等方向的硕士研究生，欢迎对科研感兴趣的本科生进组学习交流。
