Dr. Mi graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from Nanjing University, China in 2000 and a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2004. She received her Ph.D in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary in 2009. Her research interests include cloud computing, big data processing, resource management, capacity planning, MapReduce/Hadoop scheduling, performance evaluation, simulation and virtualization. Dr. Mi was a recipient of the 2015 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the 2014 Air Force’s Young Investigator Research (YIP) Award and the 2010 IBM Faculty Award. She is the director of the Northeastern University Computer Systems Research Laboratory (NUCSRL) at Northeastern University.