Shurui Zhou

Shurui Zhou is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, with primary appointment in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and cross-appointments in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering. She is also affiliated with the Schwartz Reisman Institute and a member of the Data Sciences Institute. Zhou directs the FORCOLAB, focusing on enhancing collaboration in distributed software teams, especially in open-source and AI-enabled systems development.

Her research integrates software engineering principles with human collaboration insights from organizational behavior, aiming to improve collaboration efficiency through tooling and interdisciplinary methods. Recent publications (2023-2025) explore LLM integration in software development, sustainability in scientific open-source communities, and collaborative challenges in computer-aided design.

• Education: PhD (2020) from Carnegie Mellon University's Software and Societal Systems Department, MSc from Peking University, BSc from Xi'an Jiaotong University
• Scientific Awards:
  • Gordon Slemon Teaching of Design Award (2022)
• Grants: Collaborator on NSERC Alliance-Mitacs Accelerate Grant (2025) for LLM analysis in political data

Her lab, FORCOLAB, develops tools like forks-insight.com to analyze GitHub forks and Redundant PR detection bots. Zhou organizes events like the Responsible LLM-Human Collaboration Hackathon (2024) and actively serves on conference committees including ICSE 2025 and ICSME 2024.