About Me
I'm an Assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong. I received my Ph.D. in 2020 from CSE Department of University of California, Riverside, under the supervision of Prof. Zhijia Zhao. I got my bachelor degree from Sun Yat-sen University. Before joining CityU, I was a tenure-track assistant professor at Michigan Technological University (2020-2022). My research interests are broadly in the area of compiler, and systems (focusing on parallel computing). My CV is here.
I'm looking for self-motivated students who are interested in doing research in system and compiler areas. PhD and RA supports are both availe, so feel free to contact me (but please read the introduction of my Lab before sending the email).
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California Riverside, USA 2015 - 2020
- B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China 2011 - 2015
Honors, Grants, and Awards
- HK RGC GRF: 11216925, 2026 - 2028 (HK$942K, Single PI)
- NSF CRII: CCF-2105006, 05/15/2021 - 04/30/2023 (US$190K, Single PI)
- ASPLOS Best Paper: 2020
- ACM SIGPLAN PAC Award: 2020
- DYP Fellowship: 2020, UC Riverside
- Deans Distinguished Fellowship: 2016-2017, UC Riverside
- Travel Grant Award: PACT'16, CGO'19
Selected Publications
(Names of my students are underlined, full list can check at gs or dblp )[ICS'25] Yunmo Zhang, Jiacheng Huang, Xizhe Yin, Junqiao Qiu, Hong Xu, and Chun Jason Xue. PIE: Enabling Fast and Scalable Incremental Evolving Graph Analytics on Persistent Memory, Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, 2025 (acceptance rate: 23.4%. Yunmo's first paper under my supervision).
[ASPLOS'24] Jiacheng Huang, Yunmo Zhang, Junqiao Qiu, Yu Liang, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Qingan Li, and Chun Jason Xue. More apps, faster hot-launch on mobile devices via fore/background-aware GC-Swap co-design, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System, 2024 (Fall cycle acceptance rate: 18.5%. Jiacheng's first paper under my supervision).
[IPDPS'22] Yuguang Wang, Robbie Watling, Junqiao Qiu, and Zhenlin Wang, GSpecPal: Speculation-Centric Finite State Machine Parallelization on GPUs, the 36th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2022 (acceptance rate: 25.9%. Yuguang's first paper under my supervision).
[ASPLOS'21] Junqiao Qiu, Xiaofan Sun, Amir Hossein Nodehi Sabet, and Zhijia Zhao, Scalable FSM Parallelization via Path Fusion and Higher-Order Speculation, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System, 2021 (acceptance rate: 18.8%).
[ASPLOS'20] Junqiao Qiu, Lin Jiang, and Zhijia Zhao, Challenging Sequential Bitstream Processing via Principled Bitwise Speculation, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System, 2020 (acceptance rate: 18.1%). [Best Paper Award]
Students
You can check at SAC group page.Teaching
CS 3334 - Data Structures [Spring 2024-26, Fall 2022-25 at CityUHK]
CS 2311 - Computer Programming [Spring 2023 at CityUHK]
CS 3421 - Computer Organization [Spring 2021-2022 at Michigan Tech]
CS 5090 - High Performance Computing [Fall 2020 at Michigan Tech]
Professional Services & Activities
- Publication Co-Chair (with Dr. Zhijia Zhao) ASPLOS 2021
- PC Member ICS25, HIPS 2021, PAAP’21
- AEC Member OOPSLA 2019
- Conference talk at PACT'16, ICS'17, ASPLOS'24
- Intern at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2016 summer
Interests
- Listening to the podcast What Now? with Trevor Noah
(strongly recommend the episode with Jon Stewart!) - Manchester United
- The Lumineers
- Kodaline
Last Updates: 03/17/2026. Focus!