Xia Zhou is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at

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. Her research centers on mobile computing and its intersection with other disciplines. Prior to Columbia, she was a tenured associate professor at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

, where she used to co-direct the DartNets (Dartmouth Networking and Ubiquitous Systems) Lab and the Dartmouth Reality and Robotics Lab (RLab). She was a visiting faculty in

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; zh, t=國立臺灣大學, poj=Kok-li̍p Tâi-oân Tāi-ha̍k, p=, s=) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in 1928 during Taiwan under J ...

from December 2016 to February 2017, and in

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from April 2017 to June 2017.

Early life and education

Xia Zhou received her

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in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara in June 2013, working under the supervision of

Haitao Zheng Haitao "Heather" Zheng () is a Chinese-American computer scientist and electrical engineer. She is the Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. She was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Eng ...

Honors and awards

During her career she received several honors and awards: * Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers) Lab (2019) * ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar Award (2019) * Susan and Gib Myers 1964 Faculty Fellowship (2018) * Karen E. Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative and Scholarly Achievement (2018) * N2Women: Rising Stars in Networking and Communication (2017) * Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2017) * NSF CAREER Award (2016)

References

External links

Home page of Xia Zhou
* Living people American computer scientists American women computer scientists Chinese computer scientists Chinese women computer scientists Dartmouth College faculty American computer science educators 1984 births Peking University alumni Wuhan University alumni American women academics 21st-century American women Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers {{US-compu-bio-stub