Research Interests:

Bulk Multicore Architecture

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Multicore and parallel computer architecture

Programming models for parallelism

Architectural support for programming productivity

Implementation of computer arithmetic functions

NEW! I am graduating in Aug. 2013 and interested in faculty positions and research labs.

Publications

• Xuehai Qian, He Huang, Benjamin Sahelices and Depei Qian Rainbow: Efficient Memory Race Recording with High Replay Parallelism for Relaxed Memory Model. HPCA 2013
• Xuehai Qian, Benjamin Sahelices, Josep Torrellas and Depei Qian Volition: Precise and Scalable Sequential Consistency Violation Detection. ASPLOS 2013
• Xuehai Qian, Benjamin Sahelices and Josep Torrellas, BulkSMT: Designing SMT Processors for Atomic-Block Execution. HPCA 2012.
• Xuehai Qian, Wonsun Ahn and Josep Torrellas, ScalableBulk: Scalable Cache Coherence for Atomic Blocks. MICRO 2010.
• Xuehai Qian, He Huang, Zhenzhong Duan, Junchao Zhang, Nan Yuan, Yongbin Zhou, Hao Zhang, Huimin Cui and Dongrui Fan, Optimized Register Renaming Scheme for Stack-Based x86 Operations, ARCS'07: Architecture of Computing Systems, March 2007 (Cited by Microprocessor Report, Nov. 3rd, 2008 as one of the core papers in Godson-emulated x86 processor design)
• Xuehai Qian, Hao Zhang, Jingang Yang, He Huang, Junchao Zhang and Dongrui Fan, Circuit implementation of floating point range reduction for trigonometric functions, 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2007
• Xuehai Qian, He Huang, Hao Zhang, Guoping Long, Junchao Zhang and Dongrui Fan, Design and Implementation of Floating Point Stack on General RISC Architecture, 15th EUROMICRO International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Networked-Based Processing(PDP'07) February 2007 (Cited by Microprocessor Report, Nov. 3rd, 2008 as one of the core papers in Godson-emulated x86 processor design)

Academic Genealogy

(inherit from José Martínez's page)
Xuehai Qian, PH.D. (expected) 2013, UIUC
Josep Torrellas, Ph.D. 1992, Stanford
John Hennessy, Ph.D. 1977, SUNY Stony Brook
Dick Kieburtz, Ph.D. 1961, U. Washington
Akira Ishimaru, Ph.D. 1958, U. Washington
Gedaliah Held, Ph.D. 1954, U.C. Berkeley
Samuel Silver, Ph.D. 1940, MIT
John Slater, Ph.D. 1923, Harvard
Percy Bridgman, Ph.D. 1908, Harvard
Wallace Sabine, A.M. 1888, Harvard
John Trowbridge, S.D. 1873, Harvard
Joseph Lovering, A.B. 1833, Harvard
Benjamin Peirce, A.B. 1829, Harvard
Nathaniel Bowditch, M.A. 1802 (Honorary), Harvard

Contact Information

Siebel Center for Computer Science, Room 4238
University of Illinois
201 N Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone (217) 614-4196
E-mail: xqian2 at illinois.edu
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Homepage: http://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/students/qian.html