Zheng Wang

I am an associate professor at the School of Computing at the University of Leeds. I am a member of the Distributed Systems and Services Group at Leeds and the HiPEAC Network of Excellence.

My research agenda is to make parallel software development easier and more accessible. To that end, I am interested in many aspects of parallel computing, including compilers, programming models, parallel computing, runtime systems, and systems security. My work often uses machine learning as a design methodology.

I maintain a list of must read reasearch papers for machine learning in compilers.

I am a recipient of the Best Paper Award in PACT 2010, CGO 2017, PACT 2017, CGO 2019, Best Presentation Award at PACT 2010, CGO 2013, a HiPEAC paper award in 2009, and Best Paper Nomination/Finalist in CCS 2018 and SenSys 2019.

• [July, 2020] Our work on using graph neural networks to model program structures got accepted by ACM PACT 2020
• [April, 2020] A long paper on knowledge graph alignment got accepted by ACL 2020
• [April, 2020] New grant funded by Royal Society for parallel programming models
• [Feb, 2020] Our paper on code size reduction in the SSA form got accepted by ACM PLDI 2020
• [Feb, 2020] Our paper on optimising stream parallelism got accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems
• [Jan, 2020] One paper got accepted by ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security.
• [Dec, 2019] Our work on SLP vectorizaiton-aware loop unrolling got accepted by ACM CC 2020
• [Nov, 2019] WideSee was nominated for the best paper award at ACM SenSys 2019
• [Feb, 2019] Received the Best Paper Award at CGO ‘19
• [October, 2018] Our ACM CCS 2018 submission was among the best paper award finalists! (top-4 ranked papers)

PhD Students

• Yachao Zhu, 2021 -
• Jiayu Zhao, 10 / 2020 -
• Shenghao Qiu, 10 / 2020 -
• Yin Wu, 10 / 2020 -, Leeds-SUSTech Joint PhD program (co-supervise with James Jianqiao Yu from SUSTech).
• Haibo Wang, 10 / 2020 -, Leeds-SUSTech Joint PhD program (co-supervise with Shin Hwei Tan from SUSTech).
• Shuangjiao Zhai, 09/2019 -, co-supervised with Dingyi Fang from Northwest University
• Rodrigo Caetano Rocha 10 / 2016 -, co-supervise with Hugh Leather and Murray Cole from the University of Edinburgh
• Ben Taylor (submitted)

Postgraduate Students

• Huanting Wang (MPhil, co-supervised with Zhanyong Tang from Northwest University) 2018-2021
• Menghuan Zhang (MPhil) 2018 - 2021
• Hui Feng (MPhil) 2018 - 2021
• Zhen Chen (MPhil) 2019 - 2022
• Bing Zhou (MPhil) 2020 - 2023

Alumni

• Vicent Sanz Marco (PDRA) - now Assistant professor at Osaka University, Japan
• Volker Seeker (PDRA) - now University Teacher at University of Edinburgh
• Peng Zhang (co-supervised PhD student) - now assistant professor at NUDT.
• Guixin Ye (co-supervised PhD student) - now assistant professor at Northwest University
• Jie Zhang (co-supervised PhD student) - now assistant professor at Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications
• William Ogilvie 09 / 2014 - 01 / 2018 (PhD student, co-supervise with Hugh Leather from the University of Edinburgh) - first job: Amazon
• Jie Ren (Visiting PhD student, 09 / 2015 - 03 / 2016, visiting scholar, 03/2019 - 03/2020) - Now Assistant Professor at ShaanXi Normal University, China

• Best Paper Award: ACM/IEEE PACT 2010, ACM/IEEE CGO 2017, ACM/IEEE PACT 2017, ACM/IEEE CGO 2019
• Best Paper Nomination: ACM CCS 2018, ACM SenSys 2019
• Best Presentation Award: ACM/IEEE PACT 2010, ACM/IEEE CGO 2013
• HiPEAC Paper Award: PLDI 2009
• IBM Bravo Award for outstanding technical contribution to Software Development Toolkit for IBM CELL BroadBand Engine Processor, IBM: 2007

Google Scholar | DBLP

Teaching @ Lancaster University

• SCC.311 Distributed Systems, 2013-2018
• SCC.369 Embedded Systems, 2016-2018
• SCC.120 Fundamentals of Computer Science, 2015-2017
• SCC.360 Computer Science Seminars, 2013

Professional Services

• Program/General Chair: COSMIC 2019 @ CGO 2019, COSMIC 2017 @ CGO 2017, COSMIC 2015 @ CGO 2015, COSMIC 2013 @ CGO 2013, HiPEAC Thematic Session 2013 and 2016
• Artifact Evaluation Chair: PACT 2016
• Lightning Talk Chair: PLDI 2017
• Program Committee Member: IEEE TPDS Special Section on Parallel and Distributed Computing Techniques for AI, ML and DL 2020, AACL ‘20, IPDPS ‘20, CGO ‘20, PPoPP ‘20, Challenge ‘20, NPC ‘19, Aorta @ ECOOP ‘19, ACL ‘19, IJCAI ‘19, IPDPS ‘19, ICAC ‘19, PACT ‘18, NPC ‘18, ICPADS ‘18, COLING ‘18, INFOCOMP ‘18, ICAC ‘18, ParCo ‘17, CC ‘16, ERPP ‘15, ML4PL ‘15, ParCo ‘15, ICPP-EMS ‘15, PASA ‘14, PASA ‘13, ITCS ‘12, ITCS ‘11, ICPADS ‘09
• External Review Committee Member: CGO 2018, CGO 2015, PLDI 2014, HPCA 2015, HiPEAC 2011

• July 2018 -, Associate Professor, School of Computing, University of Leeds
• August 2018 - July 2019, Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University.
• Sept 2013 - July, 2018, Lecturer, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University.
• 2012 - 2013, Research Associate, the University of Edinbugh.
• 2007 - 2011, PhD Student, the University of Edinburgh. Aademic advisor: Michael O’Boyle. Nominated for BCS Distinguished Dissertation Award;
• 2005 - 2007, Research Staff member, IBM Research

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• School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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