Dr. Ying Zhou is a Lecturer in the School of Computer Science at The University of Sydney. She holds a BSc and MEng from Nanjing University (1997) and a PhD from the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (2003). Her research focuses on human-centred data management, including large-scale data storage, user behavior analysis, and improving image query systems. Current projects include mining socially tagged images and accountability mechanisms for multitenant cloud platforms. Teaching responsibilities include courses on Advanced Data Models (COMP5338), e-Commerce Technology (COMP5347), and Cloud Computing (COMP5349). She collaborates with industry partners like Amazon and IBM, and advises four research students. She is a member of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre. Her publication record spans 20 years, with recent work emphasizing machine learning applications, big data systems, and cloud security. Research trends include optimizing distributed computing frameworks (Hadoop/Spark/Flink), adversarial machine learning, and trustworthy database systems. Earlier work focused on social network analysis, web communities, and blogosphere dynamics. Current research projects address both technical challenges (e.g., efficient image search, cloud platform accountability) and applied solutions for leveraging social media data. Her lab activities involve interdisciplinary collaboration between computer science and information systems domains.










