Xinwei Qiang

PhD student · UC San Diego

Xinwei Qiang (强欣伟)

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of California San Diego, advised by Prof. Yufei Ding. I build efficient GPU systems for AI. My research spans GPU kernels, multi-GPU execution, and AI-assisted code generation.

I received my B.E. in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where I was a member of the John Hopcroft Class. I was advised by Prof. Jingwen Leng and Prof. Shixuan Sun at EPCC Lab.

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Selected Publications

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  1. PPoPP ’27

    Plectra: Scheduling Parallelism for Diffusion Transformer

    Xinwei Qiang, Yifan Hu, Shixuan Sun, Jing Yang, Han Zhao, Chen Chen, Yu Feng, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo

  2. NeurIPS ’26

    AsymHP: Load-Balanced Sparse Attention for Video Diffusion Transformers

    Xinwei Qiang*, Yue Guan*, Ruihan Zhu, Mihir Jagtap, Zaifeng Pan, Zhongkai Yu, Chang Chen, Zhengding Hu, Yufei Ding, Adnan Aziz

  3. ASPLOS ’27

    Impeller: Scalable and Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proof Computation Framework via Graph Compilation

    Liukun Yu*, Xinwei Qiang*, Shixuan Sun, Chen Chen, Jingwen Leng, Jin Dong

  4. SC ’26

    FluxZK: Scalable and Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proof Computation via GPU Acceleration

    Xinwei Qiang*, Liukun Yu*, Xiyu Wang, Zhengyi Li, Shixuan Sun, Jingwen Leng, Chen Chen, Jiaping Gui, Zhenzhe Zheng, Jin Dong, Minyi Guo

  5. OSDI ’26

    Syncopate: Efficient Multi-GPU AI Kernels via Automatic Chunk-Centric Compute-Communication Overlap

    Xinwei Qiang*, Yue Guan*, Zhengding Hu, Keren Zhou, Yufei Ding, Adnan Aziz

  6. ICLR ’26

    DASH: Deterministic Attention Scheduling for High-Throughput Reproducible LLM Training

    Xinwei Qiang, Hongmin Chen, Shixuan Sun, Jingwen Leng, Xin Liu, Minyi Guo

  7. arXiv ’26

    Understanding GPU Megakernels: Why Residency Can Mislead

    Xinwei Qiang, Ziyi Xu, Chang Chen, Zaifeng Pan, Zhongkai Yu, Yue Guan, Yufei Ding

  8. arXiv ’26

    Weights That Stay: On-Chip Megakernels for Serial Heads in Speculative Decoding

    Xinwei Qiang, Ziyi Xu, Zaifeng Pan, Chang Chen, Yufei Ding

  9. arXiv ’26

    Beyond Parallel Blindness: Information Floors and Model Gaps in Block Drafting

    Xinwei Qiang, Xiang Fang, Chang Chen, Zaifeng Pan, Yue Guan, Yufei Ding

* Equal contribution.

Experience

Research Assistant

EPCC Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Co-advised by Prof. Jingwen Leng and Prof. Shixuan Sun

Research Intern

Picasso Lab, University of California San Diego

Advised by Prof. Yufei Ding

Education

University of California San Diego

Ph.D. in Computer Science · Advisor: Prof. Yufei Ding

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

B.E. in Computer Science · John Hopcroft Class

Selected Honors

Outstanding Bachelor’s Thesis Award (Top 1%)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Irving T. Ho Memorial Scholarship

Irving T. Ho Memorial Foundation

Service

Reviewer

ICLR 2027