Dr. Zhou is currently an Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University.
She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2016, under the supervision of Bingsheng He. She was a postdoc researcher in INRIA Rennes (2016-2017), working closely with Shadi Ibrahim. She was a faculty member with NHPCC, Shenzhen University (2017-2023). Her research interests include parallel and distributed systems, cloud computing and high-performance computing. She has published more than 40 technical articles in refereed journals and conferences including SC, HPDC, ICS, ICDE, ICDCS, ICPP and TPDS. She has been actively serving the community by participating in the organizing/program committees for conferences including SC, HPDC, ICPP, Cluster, etc. She is also serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE TPDS, JPDC and FGCS journals. She is the recipient of the TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award and the SIGHPC China Rising Star Award in 2021. She received the Shenzhen Young Scientist Award in 2023.
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💻 Research Interests
Exploiting the rich parallel and distributed architectures to accelerate Big Data/ML/AI applications, with special focus on the following directions:
- Heterogeneous accelerator architectures (GPU/PIM)
- Distributed AI systems (training and inference)
- Memory-centric high-performance computing
🔥 Recent Highlights
- 2025.11: I'm attending SC25 at St. Louis. Please stop by our paper session to chat!
- 2025.10: Invited to serve as Program Co-Chair of ICPP 2026, welcome to submit!
- 2024.12: We are organizing the CHEOPS Workshop at EuroSys 2025. Welcome to submit!
- 2024.10: Invited to serve as paper track vice-chair for SC 2025. Welcome to submit!
- 2024.8: Invited to serve as Program Co-Chair of HPCAsia 2026. Welcome to submit!
- 2024.03: I am extremely honored to receive the 2024 TPDS Award for Editorial Excellence!
- 2023.10: Invited to serve as paper track chair for Cluster 2024. Welcome to submit!
- 2023.08: Joining Department of Computer Science, HKBU. We are hiring!
- 2023.08: Invited to serve as paper track chair for IPDPS 2024. Welcome to submit!
- 2023.06: Invited to deliver a talk "Unveiling the Power of Sampling in AI and More" at Meta, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
- 2023.03: Invited to serve as Birds of a Feather (BoF) chair for SC 2024. Welcome to submit!
📖 Teaching
- COMP 7160: Research Methods in Computer Science (2025 Fall)
- COMP 7940: Cloud Computing (2025 Spring)
- COMP 7095: Big Data Management (2025 Spring)
- COMP 7160: Research Methods in Computer Science (2024 Fall)
- COMP 7095: Big Data Management (2024 Spring)
- COMP 7640: Database Systems and Administration (2024 Spring)
Latest update in October 2025.