毕业于武汉大学和德国弗莱堡大学，分别获得武汉大学计算机科学硕士学位和德国弗莱堡大学计算机科学博士学位。

博士研究工作获得德国巴登-符腾堡州MFG基金会Karl-Steinbuch奖学金和德国巴登-符腾堡州政府博士生奖学金双重资助。

主持主研包括国家级重大专项子课题、国家科技支撑计划、四川省科技厅重点研发项目等在内的多项科研课题。四川省科技厅重点研发项目：基于情景感知与数据挖掘的互联网身份认证机制与关键技术研究 四川省科技创新苗子工程培育项目：基于WiFi的室内活动分析平台 德国巴登-符腾堡州MFG基金会Karl-Steinbuch奖学金：无线室内跟踪系统 德国巴登-符腾堡州政府博士生奖学金：无线定位跟踪及其在植物园中的应用 国家级重大专项子课题：核心软件模块研制及软件系统测试 国家科技支撑计划：数字音乐移动传播运营服务关键技术开发及应用示范 智能家居系统 智能实验室系统 远程视频监控系统升级完善及扩展应用 可视化智能监控系统管理与分析平台 数字电视浏览器优化 设备管理系统 综合视频监控系统（认证系统） 智能终端安全保障系统研发 三网融合全媒体运行支撑平台关键技术研发及产业化

合作出版教材2部，以第一作者在中英文学术期刊和高水平国际学术会议（ICC、WCNC、SECON等）上发表学术论文30余篇。2020 Rui Zhou, Ziyuan Gong, Xiang Lu, Yang Fu. WiFlowCount: Device-free People Flow Counting by Exploiting Doppler Effect in Commodity WiFi. IEEE Systems Journal. 2020. (SCI, IF 4.463) Rui Zhou, Xiang Lu, Yang Fu, Mingjie Tang. Device-free Crowd Counting with WiFi Channel State Information and Deep Neural Networks. Wireless Networks. 2020. (SCI, IF 2.405) Rui Zhou, Xiang Lu, Shuai Lu, Yang Fu, Mingjie Tang. Phone Position Independent Recognition of Fine Walking Modes with Phone Sensors. Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks. To appear. (SCI, IF 0.948) Bao Zhou, Zuona Chen, Ziyuan Gong, Rui Zhou. Detection of Suspicious Objects Concealed by Walking Pedestrians Using WiFi. WCNC 2020. (CCF C) 2019 Rui Zhou, Mingjie Tang, Ziyuan Gong, Meng Hao. FreeTrack: Device-free Human Tracking with Deep Neural Networks and Particle Filtering, IEEE Systems Journal. 2019. (SCI, IF 4.463) Rui Zhou, Xiang Lu, Haosen Zhao, Yang Fu, Mingjie Tang. Automatic Construction of Floor Plans with Smartphone Sensors. Journal of Electronic Science and Technology. 2019(1):13-25. 2018 Rui Zhou, Meng Hao, Xiang Lu, Mingjie Tang, Yang Fu. Device-free Localization Based on CSI Fingerprints and Deep Neural Networks. IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON 2018), Hong Kong, China, 2018.06. (CCF B) 2017 Rui Zhou, Xiang Lu, Pengbiao Zhao, Jiesong Chen. Device-free Presence Detection and Localization with SVM and CSI Fingerprinting. IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol.17(23), pp. 7990-7999. 2017. (SCI, IF 2.512) Rui Zhou, Jiesong Chen, Xiang Lu, Jia Wu. CSI Fingerprinting with SVM Regression to Achieve Device-free Passive Localization. IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2017), Macau, China, 2017.06. (CCF C) Rui Zhou, Shuai Lu, Jiesong Chen and Zhiqiang Li. An Optimized Space Partitioning Technique to Support Two-layer WiFi Fingerprinting. 2017 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2017), San Francisco, California, USA. 2017.03. (CCF C) 2016 Rui Zhou, Yiming Huang, Zhiqiang Li. Wi-Fi Fingerprinting using SVM Classification and Regression. Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, Vol.34(1-4), pp. 161-189. 2016. (SCI, IF 1.034) Rui Zhou. Pedestrian Dead Reckoning on Smartphones with Varying Walking Speed. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2016.05. (CCF C)

授权国家发明专利2项，获得软件著作权9项。授权 基于智能手机持握方式的行人运动状态识别方法 一种基于Wi-Fi信号空间划分的两级定位方法 受理 一种基于商用WiFi的位置自适应动作识别方法 一种基于普通商用WiFi设备的通行及人数检测方法 一种基于WiFi多普勒频移的连续通行人数检测方法