

Lidong Zhou
Distinguished Scientist, Managing Director
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Dr. Lidong Zhou is Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia, responsible for the lab’s overall research and development activities in both Beijing and Shanghai. He also oversees the lab’s collaborations with academic and industrial partners in China and the Asia Pacific region.
A Distinguished Scientist of Microsoft, Dr. Zhou joined Microsoft in 2002 and has previously worked at Microsoft Research’s Silicon Valley lab as a researcher, at the Redmond lab as a principal researcher and Research Manager of the Systems Research Group, and at the Beijing lab as Assistant Managing Director.
Dr. Zhou is a renowned computer scientist specializing in computer systems research. Throughout his career, he has been continuously advancing the state of the art in both the theory and practice of scalable, reliable, and trustworthy distributed systems. As a key technical lead for Microsoft in the design and development of large-scale distributed systems, Dr. Zhou has initiated and…
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The brave new world of cloud-scale systems and networking with Dr. Lidong Zhou
Episode 82, June 26, 2019 - If you’re like me, you’re no longer amazed by how all your technologies can work for you. Rather, you’ve begun to take for granted that they simply should work for you. Instantly. All together. All the time. The fact that you’re not amazed is a testimony to the work that people like Dr. Lidong Zhou, Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia, do every day. He oversees some of the cutting-edge systems and networking research that goes on behind the scenes to make sure you’re not amazed when your technologies work together seamlessly but rather, can continue to take it for granted that they will!