Lili Qiu is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2001. She spent 2001–2004 as a researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond, and joined UT Austin in January 2005. In 2022-2025, she was an Assistant Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia, leading high-impact cross-disciplinary research in wireless communication, sensing, AI systems, and precision healthcare, and broadening collaborations across academia and industry. She is a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and ACM Distinguished Scientist. She received an NSF CAREER Award and a Google Faculty Research Award, as well as Best Paper Awards at ACM MobiSys'18, IEEE ICNP'17, CCR'25, AAAI'26.
