Lidong Zhou

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 successfully led a series of important distributed system projects that support a wide range of Microsoft products and services, from search engines and big data infrastructure to cloud systems and AI infrastructure.

Dr. Zhou is both an ACM and IEEE Fellow. He serves on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, ACM Transactions on Storage, and IEEE Transactions on Computers. He was the program co-chair for the 7^th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS) in 2013 and for the 1^st ACM Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2010). In 2017, he successfully launched the first SOSP 2017 in Shanghai as the general co-chair, after years of effort to bring the top system conference to the Asia-Pacific region.

Dr. Zhou received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Fudan University.