Abstract:
Enabled by modern computing systems, AI is now beginning to reshape the practice of building those systems, giving rise to an emerging paradigm we call system intelligence. This goes beyond automating programming tasks: it enables new forms of reasoning, design, validation, optimization, and evolution for complex systems while preserving rigor.
Biography:
Dr. Lidong Zhou is a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft and Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. Dr. Zhou’s research focuses on scalable, reliable, and trustworthy distributed systems. His work has received best paper awards at SOSP, OSDI, and USENIX ATC, and has contributed to large-scale systems underlying Microsoft products and services, including search, big data, cloud, and AI infrastructure.
