Yuanyuan Zhou

Yuanyuan Zhou is currently a Qualcomm Chair Professor at UC-San Diego. Before UCSD, she was a tenured associate professor at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She has also worked at NEC Research Institute as a scientist after completing her Ph.D at Princeton in 2000. She was the recipient for the Alfred Sloan Fellowship 2007, UIUC Gear Faculty Award 2006, NSF Career-2004 award, the CRA-W Anita-Borg Early Career Award 2005, the DOE Early Career Principle Investigator Award 2005, the IBM Faculty Award 2004 & 2005, and the IBM SUR-2003 award. She has 3 papers selected into the IEEE Micro Special Issue on Top Picks from Architecture Conferences and one best paper in SOSP 2005. She has served in the program committees or program chairs in many conferences including SOSP, ASPLOS, ISCA, PLDI, NSDI, USENIX ATC, CCS, etc.

Her research interests span the areas of operating systems, architecture, system reliability and maintainability. She and her students have released several software quality assurance tools that are currently being used in commercial companies and open source projects for large software. Her recent innovation in detecting bugs in parallel programs has been licensed to Intel. She has graduated 3 women Ph.D students who have joined top universities such as Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison and labs.

She has co-founded two startups and currently serves as a CTO and board member in PatternInsight, a startup that focuses on analyzing and searching semi-structured data. She relieves her stress by spending time with her two young daughters and her very supportive husband.