Xia Zhou

Xia Zhou is associate professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering, where she directs the Mobile X laboratory. Before joining Columbia in 2022, she was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College.

Her research interests lie broadly in mobile computing, with a recent focus on developing next-generation communication and sensing systems using light and fabrics and examining their applications in health, AI security, robotics, and human-computer interaction (HCI). Her work has received various best paper awards, including the UBICOMP 10-Year Impact Award in 2024 and best paper awards at NSDI 2020 and ACM MobiSys 2024.

She received the Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE) in 2019, the ACM SIGMOBILE RockStar Award in 2019, and the Karen E. Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative and Scholarly Achievement in 2018 and was honored as part of N2Women: Rising Stars in Networking and Communication in 2017.

She has also won the Sloan Research Fellowship in 2017, the NSF CAREER award in 2016, and a Google Faculty Research Award in 2014. She received her PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2013 and her MS from Peking University in 2007.