Name:Shan Lu

Bio:

Shan Lu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2008. She was the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin, Madison, from 2009 to 2014. Her research focuses on software reliability and efficiency, particularly detecting, diagnosing, and fixing functional and performance bugs in large software systems.

Shan won Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2014, Distinguished Alumni Educator Award from Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois in 2013, and NSF Career Award in 2010. Her co-authored papers won Google Scholar Classic Paper 2017, Best Paper Awards at USENIX OSDI 2016 and USENIX FAST 2013, ACM-SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards at ICSE 2019, ICSE 2015, and FSE 2014, an ACM-SIGPLAN Research Highlight Award at PLDI 2011, and an IEEE Micro Top Picks in ASPLOS 2006.

Shan currently serves as the Vice Chair of ACM-SIGOPS (2015–) and the Associate Editor for IEEE Computer Architecture Letters. She also serves as the technical program co-chair for USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) in 2020, USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) in 2015, and ACM Asia-Pacific Systems Workshop (APSys) in 2018.

Affiliation:University of Chicago

Research interests:Software Reliability and Efficiency