Yuanyuan(YY) Zhou (original) (raw)

07/10/17

Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou is a Qualcomm Chair Professor at University of California, San Diego, where she joined since 2009. Prior to UCSD, she was a tenured associate professor atUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. From 2000-2002, she co-founded a storage startup called Emphora in Princeton, NJ. In 2007, She co-founded her second startup, Pattern Insight . Pattern Insight has deployed solutions used by many large companies and became cash-flow positive since 2010, with a good exit to VmWare in 2012. She holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from Princeton University. She is anACM fellow and an IEEE Fellow, and Winner of 2015'sACM Mark Weiser Award

Recently I shared some of my startup lessons. You can find the video here: Learning from my startup mistakes ( 前车之鉴）(sorry it is in Chinese )

I was honored to organize the following top system conferences:

• Program Co-Chair, SOSP 2019
• Program Chair, ASPLOS 2016
• Program Co-Chair, FAST 2013
• Program Co-Chair, USENIX ATC 2008
  My Former Ph.D students and Post-docs:

  In Academia (as professors)	Feng Qin, Ph.D 2006, tenured associate Professor atOhio State Univ. Shan Lu, Ph.D 2008, tenured professor atUniversity of Chicago Lin Tan, Ph.D 2009, tenured associate Professor@Purdue University Ding Yuan Ph.D 2012, assistant professor @University of Toronto Ryan Huang, Ph.D 2016, assistant professor @John Hopkins University Tianyin Xu, Ph.D 2017, assistant professor @University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  Startup Entprepreneurs	Pin Zhou, Ph.D 2006, now founding engineer at Datas IO Inc Zhenmin Li, Ph.D 2006, co-founder ofPatternInsight, now VmWare Qingbo Zhu, Ph.D 2007, co-founder ofPatternInsight, now CEO and co-founder of More Technology (更多科技) Spiros Xanthos, Ph.D student, co-founder PatternInsight, now CEO and Co-founder ofEzHome Weiwei Xiong, Ph.D May 2013, co-founder ofWhova: Event Mobile App Soyeon Park former post-doc, co-founder of Whova: Event Mobile App Tianwei Shen former post-doc, co-founder ofWhova: Event Mobile App Jiaqi Zhang Ph.D 2014, Founding engineer ofWhova: Event Mobile App Xinxin Jin, Ph.D 2017, Architect at Whova
  Industry Innovators	Zhifeng Chen, Ph.D 2005, Google since 2005 Weihang Jiang, Ph.D 2008, now Head of Big Data@ 拼多多 Yoann Padioleau, former post-doc, Facebook since 2009 Joe Tucek, Ph.D 2008, Apple Zuoning Yin, Ph.D 2011, now VP@美菜网 Xiao Ma, Ph.D 2012, Medium Jing Zheng, former Ph.D student, Oracle Congming Chen, former postdoc, entrepreneur, China
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