Lidong Zhou

About

Dr. Lidong Zhou is a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft and Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia.

After earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University, Dr. Zhou joined Microsoft in 2002. His career has spanned several Microsoft Research labs, including the Silicon Valley lab as a researcher, the Redmond lab as a principal researcher and research manager of the Systems Research Group, and the Asia lab where he currently serves as the Managing Director since 2021.

Dr. Zhou is a leading expert in systems research. For many years, he has focused on advancing the theory and practice of reliable, trustworthy, and scalable distributed systems, while actively promoting the development of computer systems research and international collaboration in China and across Asia. He has received best paper awards at the ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), and the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC). As a key technical leader in the design and development of large-scale distributed systems at Microsoft, he has led the development of systems that underpin major Microsoft products and services across search engines, big data infrastructure, cloud systems, and AI infrastructure.

Dr. Zhou is an IEEE Fellow and ACM Fellow. He previously served as Chair of the ACM Software System Award Committee and Chair of the SOSP Steering Committee, and currently serves on the IEEE Spectrum Editorial Advisory Board. He has also served on the editorial boards of leading international journals, including ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, ACM Transactions on Storage, and IEEE Transactions on Computers. He served as General Co-Chair of SOSP 2017 and Program Committee Co-Chair of OSDI 2025. He enjoys an outstanding academic reputation and broad international influence in the global computer systems research community.

周礼栋博士，微软公司全球资深副总裁、微软亚洲研究院院长，美国康奈尔大学计算机科学博士。

周博士是国际计算机系统领域的杰出科学家与技术领军人物，多年来一直专注于推动可靠、可信及可扩展的分布式系统的理论研究和实践探索，并积极促进中国及亚洲地区计算机系统研究的发展与国际合作。周博士的研究成果在国际计算机系统领域产生了广泛影响，曾荣获 SOSP、OSDI、USENIX ATC 等国际顶级学术会议最佳论文奖。其研究工作成功应用于微软搜索引擎、大数据平台、云计算系统及人工智能基础设施等关键技术平台，为大规模计算系统的发展作出了重要贡献。

周博士是 ACM Fellow 和 IEEE Fellow，曾担任 ACM Software System Award Committee 主席、SOSP Steering Committee 主席，目前担任 IEEE Spectrum Editorial Advisory Board 成员。他还曾担任《ACM Transactions on Computer Systems》《ACM Transactions on Storage》《IEEE Transactions on Computers》等国际权威期刊编委，以及 SOSP 2017大会联合主席和 OSDI 2025程序委员会联合主席，在全球计算机系统研究领域享有卓著的学术声誉和广泛的国际影响力。