Lidong Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia

Distinguished Scientist

About

Lidong Zhou (周礼栋) is a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research Asia, currently overseeing all research areas in MSR Asia’s Beijing lab, including Natural Language Computing, Machine Learning, Software Analytics, Internet Graphics, Visual Computing, Intelligent Multimedia, Multimedia Search and Mining, Social Computing, Knowledge Computing, and Systems and Networking. Lidong is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.

Lidong joined Microsoft in 2002, after receiving his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University. Lidong’s research has been advancing the state of art in both the theory and practice of scalable, reliable, and trustworthy distributed systems, while making direct technical contributions to production large-scale services. Over the years, Lidong has been playing a significant technical role in the design and development of a wide range of large-scale distributed systems supporting the major Microsoft services, from search engine, big data infrastructure, cloud reliability and availability, to AI infrastructure. Lidong was a Principal Researcher and Research Manager of the Systems Research Group at Microsoft Research Redmond (2014-2017), a Principal Researcher and Research Manager of the Systems Research Group at Microsoft Research Asia (2008-2014), and a Researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley (2002-2008).

Lidong serves on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, ACM Transactions on Storage, and IEEE Transactions on Computers. Lidong also served on the program committees of top system conferences: SOSP (2011/2013/2019), OSDI (2010/2012/2020), ASPLOS (2017), SoCC (2016), NSDI (2015), Eurosys (2014/2018), PODC (2006), and DISC (2009). He was the program co-chair for the 7th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS) in 2013 and for the 1st ACM Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2010). He was the general co-chair of SOSP 2017 in Shanghai, after years of effort of bringing the top system conference to the Asia-Pacific region.

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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!