05/20/13

Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou is a Qualcomm Chair Professor at University of California, San Diego, where she joined since 2009. Prior to UCSD, she was working at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign as a tenured associate professor. Before UIUC, she worked at NEC Lab as a scientist and co-founded a storage startup from 2000 to 2002.   She obtained her Ph.D from Princeton University under the guidance of Kai Li and Douclas Clark.

She was the recipient for the ACM Distinguished Scientist 2011, NetApp Faculty Fellowship 2009 & 2010, 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.

In 2007, she co-founded her 2nd startup and still remains as the CTO of PatternInsight, which was spun off from her research group. PatternInsight so far has deployed solutions  currently used by many large commercial companies.

A product line (including the technology and team) from our startup, PatternInsight, were recently acquired by VmWare. See the news coverage here:  VmWare Acquired LogInsight from PatternInsight

  My Ph.D student who graduate this year,  Ding Yuan, just joined University of Toronto as a tenure-track assistant professor. This marks as my 4th Ph.D graduates who joined academia as professors.

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