Presenter

Jia Zou is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University - Tempe, starting in summer 2019. She is the director of the CACTUS data-intensive systems lab founded in the summer of 2020. Jia Zou is also affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab since 2023. Before 2019, she was a Research Scientist in the Department of Computer Science of Rice University. Before that she worked in IBM Research - China as a researcher. She received her Ph.D in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China.

Jia Zou received a prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2022, an Amazon Research Award in 2023, and an IBM faculty award in 2021. Her research interests include database systems, AI/ML in database, applied AI/ML to database, and federated data management. She has more than 20 papers published in VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, VLDB journal, SoCC, ICDCS, ICDM, and so on, and has been granted 15 patents. Her work received VLDB 2019 best paper honorable mention award and SIGMOD 2020 research highlight award.