Lidong Zhou
Also known as 周礼栋
Lidong Zhou is a distributed-systems researcher who has worked at Microsoft since 2002. He studied at Fudan University and earned a Cornell PhD in 2001. The ACM named him a 2019 Fellow for contributions to trustworthy distributed computing. In 2021 he became managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, and the SuperBench paper on cloud AI infrastructure reliability won a best paper award at USENIX ATC 2024. At NeurIPS 2024 he gave an invited talk on how systems and AI co-evolve, and he is a corporate vice president at Microsoft.
Timeline
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2001
A Cornell computer science PhD
He earns a computer-science PhD at Cornell in 2001; his bachelor's degree is from Fudan University.
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2002
Joining Microsoft after Cornell
In 2002, after earning his Cornell PhD, he joins Microsoft.
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2019
An ACM Fellowship
The ACM names him a 2019 Fellow for contributions to trustworthy distributed computing and to systems research and education in China.
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2020
A Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award
At OSDI 2020, the paper 'Byzantine Ordered Consensus without Byzantine Oligarchy' wins the Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award.
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2021
Managing director of Microsoft Research Asia
He is appointed managing director of Microsoft Research Asia in 2021.
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2024
A best paper on AI infrastructure
At USENIX ATC 2024, the SuperBench paper on cloud AI infrastructure reliability wins a best paper award. Also in 2024, he gives an invited talk at NeurIPS on how systems and AI co-evolve.
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2025
Program co-chair of OSDI 2025
For OSDI 2025 he co-chairs the program committee.
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As of October 2026
Corporate vice president at Microsoft
Currently, he is a corporate vice president at Microsoft, chief scientist of the Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D Group, and managing director of Microsoft Research Asia.
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