Lili Qiu

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Lili Qiu
Alma materUniversity of Bridgeport
Cornell University
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Austin at Texas

Lili Qiu [1] is a Chinese computer scientist known for her research on wireless networks. She is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin and vice managing director of Microsoft Research Asia.

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Education and career

Qiu was born in Shanghai, where she attended Nanyang Model High School.

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. [1]

She completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University. [2] Her dissertation, An Integrated Approach to Improving Web Performance, was jointly supervised by Robbert van Renesse and George Varghese. [3]

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. [2]

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 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2017, [4] elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to the design and analysis of wireless network protocols and mobile systems", [5] and selected as a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in 2022. [6] She was also recognized as N2Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications in 2017, ACM Distinguished Member in 2013, [7] and National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2006. She received Best Paper Awards at ACM MobiSys 2018, IEEE ICNP 2017, and AAAI 2026. [8] [9] [10] .

References

  1. 1 2 Qiu, Lili (2001), An Integrated Approach to Improving Web Performance . Biographical sketch, p. iii.
  2. 1 2 Lili Qiu, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, retrieved 2018-12-06
  3. Lili Qiu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Norman, Staci R. (January 2, 2017), Lili Qiu Elected IEEE Fellow, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, retrieved 2018-12-06
  5. 2018 ACM Fellows Honored for Pivotal Achievements that Underpin the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, December 5, 2018
  6. NAI Inducts 2022 Fellows Class, National Academy of Inventors, December 9, 2022
  7. Virginia Gold (November 20, 2013). "ACM Honors Distinguished Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators for Innovations: ACM Honors Distinguished Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators for Innovations". Association for Computing Machinery . Retrieved January 12, 2026.
  8. "SIGMOBILE Newsletter, August 2018". SIGMOBILE.
  9. "ICNP 2017 paper award". UT Austin.
  10. "AAAI Conference Paper Awards and Recognition". AAAI.