Xuehai Qian is a Tenured Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University since July 2024. Prior to this, he served as an Associate Professor at Purdue University (2022-2024), Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California (2015-2022), and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California Berkeley (2013-2015). Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (2013) ME in Computer Science and Technology, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (2007) BE in Computer Science and Technology, Beihang University, China (2004) His research focuses on parallel computer architecture , hardware/software co-designed domain-specific architectures for graph analytics and machine learning , hardware security , and quantum computer architecture . He has pioneered scalable cache coherence protocols for atomic block execution, hardware sequential consistency violation detection, and distributed frameworks for graph processing leveraging emerging memory technologies. Xuehai Qian’s publications span computer architecture , graph analytics , machine learning systems , and quantum computing , with a strong emphasis on distributed systems , accelerators , and memory optimization . His work includes novel architectures for graph processing, decentralized training protocols, and ReRAM-based accelerators for deep learning. NSF CAREER Award (2018) ACSIC (American Chinese Scholar In Computing) Rising Star Award (2019) IEEE Senior Member (2019) Hall of Fame inductions: ASPLOS (2018), HPCA (2019), ISCA (2021), MICRO (2021) W.J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award (2013) He has advised students who have received Microsoft Research Lovelace Fellowships , Ph.D. Fellowships , and Facebook Fellowships . His research has been supported by grants such as the NSF SPX project on FPGA-based machine learning platforms and smaller NSF grants. Notably, he has served as an Associate Editor for Science China (Information Sciences) since 2023 and as a Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2019).











