Professor Lu Yutong is the Director of the System Software Laboratory, School of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha, China. She is also a professor in the State Key Laboratory of High Performance Computing, China. She got her B.S, M.S, and PhD degrees from the NUDT. Her extensive research and development experience has spanned several generations of domestic supercomputers in China.  During this period, Prof. Lu was the Director Designer for the Tianhe-1A and Tianhe-2 systems.  Her continuing research interests include parallel operating systems (OS), high-speed communication, global file system, and advanced programming environment.