Zhou(Jo) Yu is a CS Professor at Columbia University and Founder of Arklex.ai. She obtained her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr Yu is the co-director of the Columbia DAPlab. Dr. Yu has received several best paper awards in top NLP conferences (such as ACL 2024) and has won the Forbes 30 under 30 in 2018. Dr. Yu has developed various AI systems that have had a real impact, including winning the Amazon Alexa Prize. Dr. Yu co-founded Arklex.ai, democratizing AI agent development through an enterprise-grade automated testing tool.