Lili Qiu is a Chinese computer scientist known for her research on

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s. She is currently a professor of computer science at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

and vice managing director of Microsoft Research Asia.

Education and career

Qiu was born in

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

, where she attended

Nanyang Model High School Shanghai Nanyang Model High School () is a public secondary school in Xuhui, Shanghai, China. History In 1896, Nanyang Public School () was founded by an imperial edict issued by Guangxu Emperor, under the Business and Telegraphs Office of the ...

. She moved to the US for her undergraduate studies, earning a bachelor's degree with honors for a double major in computer science and physics at the

University of Bridgeport The University of Bridgeport (UB or UBPT) is a private university in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. The university is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. In 2021, the university was purchased by Goodwin Unive ...

. She completed her Ph.D. at

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

. Her dissertation, ''An Integrated Approach to Improving Web Performance'', was jointly supervised by Robbert van Renesse and

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. After working at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, Microsoft Research (MSR), Redmond, Washington, from 2001 to 2004, she joined the Department of Computer Science at University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in 2005, and later promoted to a tenured professor. In spring 2022, she joined Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) as vice managing director and is currently leading MSRA Shanghai branch.

Recognition

Qiu became a fellow of the

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in 2017, elected as an

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in 2018 for "contributions to the design and analysis of wireless network protocols and mobile systems", and selected as a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in 2022. She was also recognized as N2Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications in 2017, ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2013, and NSF CAREER Award in 2006. She got best paper awards at ACM MobiSys'18 and IEEE ICNP'17.

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