Pei Cao is Consulting Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford
University and a software engineer at Google Inc.  She received her 
Ph.D. from Princeton in 1996, M.S, from Princeton in 1992, and BS from 
Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) in 1990, all in computer science. 
Prior to joining Stanford, Prof. Cao was Assistant Professor 
of Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison (Jan 1996 - June 1999), 
Founder of Tasmania Network Systems, Inc. (June 1999 - Nov 1999), 
Technical Leader, Cisco Systems, Inc.  (Nov 1999 - June 2004), and 
Software Engineer, Google Inc. (June 2004 - present).  
Her past awards include the NSF Presidential Early Career Award for
Scientist and Engineers (PECASE) Award (the highest honor bestowed by the U.S.
government on outstanding new scientist s and engineers who are in 
the early stages of establishing their independent research careers), 
Outstanding Paper in IEEE International  Conference on Distributed Computing 
Systems, Best Paper in ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling 
of Computer Systems, Outstanding Paper in the 20th International Symposium 
on Computer Architecture, and Dean of Engineering Fellowship at Princeton 
University.  In addition to substantial industrial engineering experience,
Prof Cao has published over twenty-five publications in web caching, 
distributed systems, and storage systems.  As of Oct 2010, Prof Cao has 
four publications among the top 700 most cited Computer Science articles.