Zhou Yu
Associate Professor, Computer Science
An associate professor of computer science at Columbia Engineering, Zhou Yu's passion is building intelligent systems that interact with humans seamlessly. She works on natural language processing and multimodal machine learning, designing algorithms for real-time intelligent interactive systems that coordinate with user actions that are beyond spoken languages, including non-verbal behaviors to attain effective and natural communications. Yu won the 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize and was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 2018 Science list.