Pei Cao
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Pei Cao is a Chinese and American computer scientist, and a vice president of engineering at YouTube.[1] She is known for her development of internet infrastructure including web caching, search engines, and data replication.
Cao studied computer science at Tsinghua University, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1990. She continued her studies at Princeton University, where she received a master's degree in 1992 and completed her Ph.D. in 1996,[2] with a dissertation advised by Kai Li.[3]
She worked as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1996 until 1999. In 1999, she began working in industry, initially at Tasmania Network Systems[2] and later that year, after Tasmania Network Systems was acquired by Cisco,[4] for Cisco. She moved to Google in 2004.[2]