Wenqian Dong

Wenqian Dong is an assistant professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. ​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).

She received her Ph.D. in EECS from University of California, Merced under the mentorship of Prof. Dong Li in 2022. She worked as an assistant professor at KFCIS department at Florida International University from Aug. 2022 to Aug. 2024. 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.