I graduated from Computer Department of Fudan University in China with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree. 1987 stayed in school to teach after graduation. Qilu studied at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) from 65438 to 0992, and graduated from 65438 to May 1996 with a doctor's degree in computer science, and continued his postdoctoral research at CMU. His doctoral supervisor is Professor M. Satyanarayanan. His doctoral thesis is entitled "Improving data consistency in mobile file access by using isolated transactions only". Then he joined the Almaden research laboratory of IBM and worked for two years. 1August 998 17 Join Yahoo! ) In the past ten years, Qilu has grown up from an ordinary engineer step by step. On April 14, 2006, Qilu was appointed as senior vice president of Yahoo, and in 2007, he was promoted to executive vice president of Yahoo again. From June, 2008 to February, 2008, he joined Microsoft as executive vice president and was the person in charge of Microsoft Bing project. As the president of Microsoft's online business department, Qilu is now one of the heads of Microsoft's four major business departments, in charge of a technical team of more than 3,000 to 5,000 people, reporting directly to CEO Satya Nadella. It is said that this is the highest-ranking mainlander in the headquarters of foreign-funded technology companies. On the morning of July 12, Beijing time, Microsoft announced the largest restructuring plan in five years on Thursday, and Qilu will take charge of Microsoft's online business department.

In addition to his research papers in academia, Dr. Qilu holds 20 American patents and is regarded as the "savior" of Microsoft search engine (from Business Week). "Qilu combines senior professional and technical knowledge, outstanding leadership and extensive business knowledge, and is a very rare wizard in the industry." (Microsoft CEO Stephen Ballmer)