Ruiping Li is a senior engineer in DB2 for z/OS development at IBM Silicon Valley Lab. She is the technical lead responsible for the DB2 query acceleration support for the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator. She has been the development lead for DB2 9 for z/OS new feature optimistic locking support and DB2 10 for z/OS new feature timestamp with time zone data type support and has also been the key developer for some other important functionality, including pureXML index exploitation, complex queries, MQTs, and multiple CCSID features in DB2 for z/OS.