Wenqian Dong

Assistant Professor in KFSCIS department at Florida International University.
She received her Ph.D. in EECS from University of California, Merced under the mentorship of Prof. Dong Li in 2022, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Hunan University in 2017, and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Hunan Agriculture University in 2015.

She worked in the High-Performance Computing Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and AI Labs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Her work at PNNL was highlighted at DOE News wise and PNNL website .

​ Her research interests include high-performance computing (HPC), scientific machine learning, automatic performance tuning, and system-level optimization for large-scale ML models. Her work has been published in multiple top-tier conferences, including SC, HPDC, ASPLOS, ICS, EuroSys, VLDB, etc. Also, she is the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High-Performance Computing (2023) and the Bobcat Fellowship at UC Merced (2020 and 2018).

[News:] If you are interested in applying to the Ph.D. program (open for graduates/senior undergrads) in my group or remote research intern (open for undergrads) from my group, please send your CV and transcript to me.

wdong [at] fiu [dot] edu
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News

[05/2024] Our request for resources to advance AI infrastructure has been awarded by the NSF NAIRR Pilot. Thank you to the NSF, DOE and TACC!
[05/2024] A paper "TimeX++: Learning Time-Series Explanations with Information Bottleneck" is accepted in ICML'24.
[04/2024] I am honored to have been awarded a fellowship by the NSF to participate in the 2024 NSF CISE CAREER Workshop in Washington, D.C. Thanks to the NSF and the organizing team!
[12/2023] Our proposal "An AI/ML Collaborative for Southeast Florida Coastal Environmental Data and Modeling Center (IIS-2331908)" has been funded by the NSF. A big thank you to NSF for their support!
[12/2023] I will serve as a TPC member of SC'24: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Area of Programming Frameworks, in Atlanta, GA, USA.
[12/2023] I will serve as a TPC member of HPDC'24: The 33rd International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing is scheduled on June 3-7, 2024 and will be held in Pisa, Italy.
[11/2023] I was very honored to be selected for the 2023 IEEE Computer Society TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High-Performance Computing (website). The award ceremony will be at SC23 in Denver. See you there!
[10/2023] I will serve as a Student Program Co-Chair of International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'24).
[10/2023] I am invited as a panelsit for DOE proposal review.
[09/2023] I will serve as a TPC member of the 2024 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM’24).
[09/2023] I will serve as a TPC member of CCGrid'24. See call for papers here.
[06/2023] MLbench'23 will be held alongside MLsys on June 8, 2023, in Miami. We cordially invite you to attend our workshop and say 'hi'.
[03/2023] I am invited as a panelsit for NSF proposal review.
[04/2023] A paper "Auto-HPCnet: An Automatic Framework to Build Neural Network-based Surrogate Models for HPC Applications" is accepted in HPDC'23.
[11/2022] I am invited to be a TPC of IEEE Cloud.
[09/2022] Our paper "Betty: Enabling Large-Scale GNN Training with Batch-Level Graph Partitioning" is accepted in ASPLOS'23.
[08/2022] I am going to teach CEN 5082-Grid Enablement of Scientific Applications at FIU in the Fall semester.
[06/2022] I am invited to be a TPC of AI4Science workshop.
[04/2022] I will join FIU as a tenure-track assistant professor. Feel free to send me your application if you are interested in my research topics.
[01/2022] I am invited as a TPC of MLBench workshop.

Selected Publications

• Auto-HPCnet: An Automatic Framework to Build Neural Network-based Surrogate Models for HPC Applications.
  Wenqian Dong , Gokcen Kestor and Dong Li
  In the 32nd ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (acceptance rate: %) (HPDC), 2023
  HPDC
• Betty: Enabling Large-Scale GNN Training with Batch-Level Graph Partitioning.
  Shuangyan Yang, Mingjia Zhang, Wenqian Dong , and Dong Li;
  In the 28th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (acceptance rate: %) (ASPLOS), 2023
  ASPLOS
• Fauce: Fast and Accurate Deep Ensembles with Uncertainty for Cardinality Estimation.
  Jie Liu, Wenqian Dong , Qingqing Zhou, and Dong Li
  In the 47th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (acceptance rate: 24%) (VLDB), 2021
  VLDB
• MD-HM: Memoization-based Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Big Memory System.
  Zhen Xie, Wenqian Dong, Jie Liu, Ivy Peng, Yanbao Ma and Dong Li
  In the 47th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (acceptance rate: 24%) (ICS), 2021
  ICS
• Tahoe: Tree Structure-Aware High Performance Inference Engine for Decision Tree Ensemble on GPU.
  Zhen Xie, Wenqian Dong, Jiawen Liu, Hang Liu and Dong Li;
  ACM 16th European Conference on Computer Systems, 2021 (acceptance rate: 20.9%) (EuroSys), 2021
  EuroSys
• Smart-PGSim: Using Neural Network to Accelerate AC-OPF Power Grid Simulation.
  Wenqian Dong , Zhen Xie, Gokcen Kestor and Dong Li
  In 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing (acceptance rate: 22.3%) [Highlighted in Newswise as a DOE science innovation] (SC), 2020
  SC arxiv
• Adaptive Neural Network-Based Approximation to Accelerate Eulerian Fluid Simulation.
  Wenqian Dong, Jie Liu, Zhen Xie and Dong Li;
  In the 31st ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing (acceptancerate: 22.6%) (SC), 2019
  SC arxiv
• Modeling Application Resilience in Large Scale Parallel Execution.
  Kai Wu, Wenqian Dong, Qiang Guan, Nathan Debardeleben and Dong Li;
  In the 47th International Conference on Parallel Processing (acceptance rate: 24%) (ICPP), 2018
  ICPP

Awards and Honors

❉ 2023: IEEE CS TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing
❉ 2020: Bobcat Fellowship at UC Merced
❉ 2018: Bobcat Fellowship at UC Merced
❉ 2019: ASPLOS'19 Student Travel Grant
❉ 2016: China National Scholarship for graduate students (Master student)
❉ 2016: The First Class Academic Scholarship of Hunan University
❉ 2016: Second prize, "The Mathematical Modeling Competition of Hunan Province"
❉ 2015: The Excellent Graduation Thesis (Undergraduate student)
❉ 2015: The Outstanding Graduates of Hunan Agricultural University
❉ 2014: Recommended as an excellent fresh graduate to study for master's degree with exam waived
❉ 2014: China National Scholarship for undergraduate students
❉ 2013: China National Encouragement Scholarship for undergraduate students

Teaching and Working Experience

[FIU] COP-4520:Parallel Computing (Spring 2023)
[FIU] CEN-5082:Parallel Computing System (Fall 2022)
[UCM] CSE-179:Parallel computing (Fall 2019, Spring 2021)
[UCM] CSE-022:Introduction to Programming (Fall 2020, Fall 2021)
[UCM] CSE-020:Introduction to Computing (Spring 2021)
[HNU] Compilation Principle (Fall 2015, Fall 2016)
[HNU] Computer System and Structure (Spring 2016)
[HP labs] Research Intern (May 2021 - Jan 2022)
[PNNL] Research Intern (Summer 2019, Spring 2020 - Fall 2020, Spring 2022)
[UCM] Research Assistant (Fall 2017 - Spring 2019 )

Services

❉ Student Program Co-Chair of International Conference on Parallel Processing 2024 (ICPP'24)
❉ Organizer for the MLBench'23 workshop
❉ Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the SC'24, HPDC'24, CCGrid'24, IEEE Cloud'23, AI4S'22, and GPGPU'23
❉ Student Volunteer at SC’17, SC’18, SC'20 and SC'21
❉ Assistant of managing HPDC’18 and HPDC’19 travel grants
❉ Member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
❉ Member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM-Women)
❉ Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)