Qinglei Cao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
M.S. in Computer Application Technology, Ocean University of China
B.S. in Information and Computational Science, Hunan University
Practice Areas
Qinglei Cao received his B.E. degree in information and computational science from Hunan University in 2009. After undergraduate, he served as HPC Software Developer & Research Scientist at the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) until 2013. He got his M.E. degree in computer application technology from Ocean University of China in 2016. In 2022, he received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, advised by Dr. Jack Dongarra (Turing Award 2021). Before joining SLU, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow/Scholar with Dr. George Bosilca at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2023) and a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) at Cerebras Systems (an AI chip startup company), Sunnyville, CA (2022-2023).
Research Interests
High-performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Labs and Facilities
Publications and Media Placements
Qinglei Cao, Sameh Abdulah, Hatem Ltaief, Marc G Genton, David E Keyes, and George Bosilca. Reducing Data Motion and Energy Consumption of Geospatial Modeling Applications Using Automated Precision Conversion. IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), 2023
Qinglei Cao, Sameh Abdulah, Rabab Alomairy, Yu Pei, Pratik Nag, George Bosilca, Jack Dongarra, Marc G Genton, David E Keyes, Hatem Ltaief, and Ying Sun. Reshaping geostatistical modeling and prediction for extreme-scale environmental applications. International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC, ACM Gordon Bell Prize Finalist), 2022
Qinglei Cao, Rabab Alomairy, Yu Pei, George Bosilca, Hatem Ltaief, David Keyes, and Jack Dongarra. A framework to exploit data sparsity in tile low-rank Cholesky factorization. IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2022
Qinglei Cao, George Bosilca, Nuria Losada, Wei Wu, Dong Zhong, and Jack Dongarra. Evaluating data redistribution in parsec. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2022
Sameh Abdulah, Qinglei Cao (main contributor), Yu Pei, George Bosilca, Jack Dongarra, Marc G. Genton, David E. Keyes, Hatem Ltaief, and Ying Sun. Accelerating geostatistical modeling and prediction with mixed-precision computations: A high-productivity approach with parsec. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2022
Qinglei Cao, Yu Pei, Kadir Akbudak, George Bosilca, Hatem Ltaief, David Keyes, and Jack Dongarra. Leveraging parsec runtime support to tackle challenging 3d data-sparse matrix problems. IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2021
Dong Zhong, Qinglei Cao, George Bosilca, and Jack Dongarra. Using long vector extensions for MPI reductions. Parallel Computing (PARCO), 2021
Yunhe Feng, Dong Zhong, Peng Sun, Weijian Zheng, Qinglei Cao, Xi Luo, and Zheng Lu. Micromobility in smart cities: A closer look at shared dockless e-scooters via big social data. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2021
Qinglei Cao, George Bosilca, Wei Wu, Dong Zhong, Aurelien Bouteiller, and Jack Dongarra. Flexible data redistribution in a task-based runtime system. IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), 2020
Qinglei Cao, Yu Pei, Kadir Akbudak, Aleksandr Mikhalev, George Bosilca, Hatem Ltaief, David Keyes, and Jack Dongarra. Extreme-scale task-based Cholesky factorization toward climate and weather prediction applications. ACM Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference (PASC), 2020
Elliott Slaughter, Wei Wu, Yuankun Fu, Legend Brandenburg, Nicolai Garcia, Wilhem Kautz, Emily Marx, Kaleb S. Morris, Qinglei Cao, George Bosilca, Seema Mirchandaney, Wonchan Lee, Sean Treichler, Patrick McCormick, and Alex Aiken. Task bench: a parameterized benchmark for evaluating parallel runtime performance. IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), 2020
Xi Luo, Wei Wu, George Bosilca, Yu Pei, Qinglei Cao, Thananon Patinyasakdikul, Dong Zhong, and Jack Dongarra. Han: a hierarchical autotuned collective communication framework. IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER, Best paper), 2020
Dong Zhong, Qinglei Cao, George Bosilca, and Jack Dongarra. Using advanced vector extensions AVX- 512 for MPI reductions. ACM European MPI Users’ Group Meeting (EuroMPI), 2020
Dong Zhong, Pavel Shamis, Qinglei Cao, George Bosilca, Shinji Sumimoto, Kenichi Miura, and Jack Dongarra. Using ARM scalable vector extension to optimize OpenMPI. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID), 2020
Yu Pei, Qinglei Cao, George Bosilca, Piotr Luszczek, Victor Eijkhout, and Jack Dongarra. Communication avoiding 2d stencil implementations over PaRSEC task-based runtime. IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), 2020
Qinglei Cao, Yu Pei, Thomas Herault, Kadir Akbudak, Aleksandr Mikhalev, George Bosilca, Hatem Ltaief, David Keyes, and Jack Dongarra. Performance analysis of tile low-rank Cholesky factorization us- ing parsec instrumentation tools. IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Programming and Performance Visualization Tools (ProTools at SC), 2019
Yan Yan, Jie Nie, Lei Huang, Zhen Li, Qinglei Cao, and Zhiqiang Wei. Exploring relationship between face and trustworthy impression using mid-level facial features. International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM), 2016
Yan Yan, Jie Nie, Lei Huang, Zhen Li, Qinglei Cao, and Zhiqiang Wei. Is your first impression reliable? trustworthy analysis using facial traits in portraits. International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM), 2015