Dr. Ying Zou is a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Software Evolution. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and cross-appointed to the School of Computing at Queen’s University in Canada. She is a visiting scientist of IBM Centers for Advanced Studies (CAS), IBM Canada. She was awarded with 2014 IBM CAS Research Faculty Fellow of the Year. Dr. Zou also won twice IBM Faculty Awards in 2007 and 2008. The 2008 IBM Faculty award was selected to grant top amounts from IBM worldwide program. The candidates must have an outstanding reputation for contributions in their field or, in the case of junior faculty, show unusual promise. Her research interests include software engineering, software maintenance and evolution, empirical studies, software analytics and service-oriented computing
Dr. Ying Zou received her BEng from Beijing Polytechnic University, Meng from Chinese Academy of Space Technology, and PhD from University of Waterloo. Currently, she is a Professor & Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Queen's University. She is a visiting faculty fellow of IBM Centers for Advanced Studies (CAS). Dr. Zou is cross-appointed in the School of Computing at Queen's University. She is also a senior member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.
