Yu Zhou, PhD

Yu Zhou
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052, USA

I am a Software Engineer at Microsoft in Redmond, WA. I work on information security and entriprise data protection.

I received PhD in Computer Science at Rice University in 2017 with advisor Dr. Ron Goldman. I received MS in Computer Science at Rice University in 2015 with advisor Dr. James McLurkinI received BS in Mathematics and Physics at Tsinghua University in 2011.

Between October 2016 and October 2017, I was a Software Engineer at Google in Mountain View, CA. I worked on information security and malware analysis.

Between July 2011 and July 2012, I was a network engineer in Network Research Center of Tsinghua University. My work was about IPv6 network, email systems, storage, and virtualization.


Featured Publications:

Yu Zhou, Ron Goldman, and James McLurkin, "An asymmetric distributed method for sorting a robot swarm," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 2, no. 1, pp.261-268, Jan. 2017. [PDF] [IEEE Xplore] [bibtex]

Zhou Y., Goldman R. (2017) Building Fractals with a Robot Swarm. In: Tan Y., Takagi H., Shi Y., Niu B. (eds) Advances in Swarm Intelligence. ICSI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10386. Springer, Cham [Springer] [bibtex]

Other publications are available at Google Scholar.