Yuzhou is now a researcher at IBM China Research Lab. He received his doctorial degree in Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. He received his Bachelor's degree at Northwestern Polytechnical University, where his research interests focused on scalable data mining algorithms and parallel computing. Yuzhou's recent publications covered both data mining (ACM SIGKDD, SIAM SDM, and DMKD) and parallel computing (IEEE IPDPS). He has been working in Google Beijing as a research intern since April 2008. He also worked for his department as a teaching assistant on both undergraduate database courses and graduate data mining courses for several years. He received the Huawei Scholarship and Best Paper Award in the annual Beijing-Hong Kong doctoral forum in 2008.