Dr. Yutong Lu
Director of the System Software Laboratory, School of Computer Science
National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), China
Professor Yutong Lu is the Director of the System Software Laboratory, School of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha, China. She is also a professor in the State Key Laboratory of High Performance Computing, China. She got her B.S, M.S, and PhD degrees from the NUDT. Her extensive research and development experience has spanned several generations of domestic supercomputers in China. During this period, Prof. Lu was the Director Designer for the Tianhe-1A and Tianhe-2 systems – both of which have been internationally recognized as the top-ranked supercomputing system worldwide in respectively November of 2010 and June of 2013. Her continuing research interests include parallel operating systems (OS), high speed communications, global file systems, and advanced programming environments with MPI.