Yuanyuan Zhou

Yuanyuan Zhou is a Chinese and American computer scientist and entrepreneur, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where she holds the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Mobile Computing. Her research centers on software reliability, using data mining techniques to find bugs and developing system designs adaptable to hardware variations. She earned a bachelor's degree from Peking University in 1992 and a master's and PhD from Princeton University in 1996 and 2001 under advisor Kai Li, and founded three companies: Emphora, Pattern Insight and Whova. She received the Anita Borg Early Career Award in 2005, a Sloan Fellowship in 2007, was named an ACM Fellow in 2013 and an IEEE Fellow in 2014, and received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award in 2015.