Dong Zhou

Dong Zhou is a Chinese computer scientist and competitive programmer. Representing China he won a gold medal at the IOI 2008 (joint 3rd overall) and later an ICPC World Finals gold medal (2011) with Tsinghua's team Dubhe. He studied in Tsinghua University's Special Pilot CS Class (Yao Class, IIIS), then took an MS and PhD in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by David G. Andersen in the Parallel Data Lab, working on high-performance networked systems and data-structure engineering. Alongside his PhD he worked roughly three years as a Core Developer at Hudson River Trading, a proprietary algorithmic/high-frequency trading firm. Much of the career detail below is drawn from his LinkedIn profile via an enrichment index and should be treated as index-sourced rather than independently confirmed except where a primary page is cited.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Dong Zhou worked as a Core Developer at Hudson River Trading (an algorithmic/high-frequency proprietary trading firm), roughly 2015-2018. His own first-person Zhihu answer dated 2015-05-31 states he had been a core developer at HRT for just over a month, focused on systems development, which independently corroborates the LinkedIn-sourced role. Identity support: the Zhihu account is titled 'Dong Zhou - Programmer, Computer System Researcher', matching the CMU systems-PhD persona and the IOI/CHOF competitive-programming record.May 31, 2015
• PhD in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, thesis 'Data Structure Engineering for High Performance Software Packet Processing', advisor David G. Andersen; CMU degree-conferred records place the award in academic year 2018-2019.2019
• Won a gold medal for China at IOI 2008, ranked 3rd overall (IOI statistics record 100/100/100 on the three tasks).2008
• HRT role is bracketed by academic positions: LinkedIn index lists CMU Graduate Research Assistant 2012-2015, then HRT Core Developer 2015-2018, then CMU Graduate Research Assistant 2018-2019 and PhD conferred 2019 - the trading stint sits between the MS and the completed PhD rather than as a terminal career move.2019
• His CMU homepage states he entered CMU after undergraduate study in Tsinghua's Special Pilot CS Class (Yao Class) at the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, supervised by Andrew Yao.2015
• Gold medal at ICPC World Finals 2011 with Tsinghua University team 'Dubhe' (teammates Yi Yang, Zichao Qi), extending a competitive-programming career from high school into university.2011
• Index-only: LinkedIn lists an Assistant Professor role at Tsinghua University for 2020-2021; no primary Tsinghua faculty page was found to confirm this.2021
• CMU record shows an MS (2012-2015) before the PhD, and Tsinghua B.E. (2008-2012); the BS-to-MS pivot into US graduate study immediately follows the IOI/Tsinghua years.2015
• Research output spans networked systems and data structures: ScaleBricks (SIGCOMM 2015), Poppy rank/select (SEA 2013), KuaFu (ICDE 2013), Rex (EuroSys 2014, with Microsoft Research), LXFI (SOSP 2011), G2 (USENIX ATC 2011).2015
• LinkedIn profile (linkedin.com/in/dozhou) shows headline 'Builder', location Hong Kong SAR and 394 connections, consistent with the CMU/HRT identity; the LinkedIn material itself is index-sourced.2026
• Index-only: LinkedIn lists Research Intern roles at Intel (Hillsboro, OR) and Microsoft (Redmond) in 2014, and a Visiting Researcher post at Microsoft Beijing in 2019 - flag as index-sourced, not primary.2019
• Public contact: [contact omitted] published on his CMU page; website cs.cmu.edu/~dongz is his personal academic site and lists office GHC 9002.2015