Zhiding Liang
Zhiding Liang is an assistant professor at the CUHK CSE. He was an assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) CS department from 2024 - 2025. He received PhD degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame under the supervision of Prof. Yiyu Shi start from 2021 Fall. The results of his research have been published in prestigious conferences and journals, including ISCA, DAC, ICCAD, QCE, SIGMETRICS, TCAD, TSG, TQE, and TVCG. He has been selected as a DAC Young Fellow in both 2021 and 2022, the ML and Systems Rising Star at 2025. He has also been nominated as the recipient of the Edison Innovation Fellowship by the IDEA Center at the University of Notre Dame. He is devoted to quantum education and outreach; he is the co-founder of the Quantum Computer System (QuCS) Lecture Series, an impactful public online lecture series in the quantum computing community. He also led the organization of the first ACM/IEEE Quantum Computing for Drug Discovery Challenge at ICCAD, a top-tier computer science conference. He is one of the major contributors to the TorchQuantum library, which has been adopted by IBM Qiskit Ecosystem and PyTorch Ecosystem with 1.3K+ stars on GitHub. He received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison at Dec 2020.
Yidong Zhou (2025 Spring {PhD Student} - ) [Keep study at US and will co-advise with Prof. Bo Yuan]
M.S. Brown University
B.S. Nankai University (Poling Class)
DAC Young Fellow 2025, NSF Student Travel Grant
Hisen Zhang (2025 Spring {PhD Student} - )
B.S. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
DAC Young Fellow 2025, EPS Student Travel Grant, Jerry Dziuba ECSE Graduate Student Service Award
Kangyu Zheng (2025 Spring {PhD Student} - ) [Coadvise with Prof. Tianfan Fu]
PhD transfer from Ohio State University
B.S. University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Ming Zhong (2025 Fall {PhD Student}- )
M.S. Chinese Academy of Sciences
B.S. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Chen Huang (2026 Spring{RA} 2026 Fall {PhD Student} - )
M.S. Imperial College London
B.S. Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Upoma Bhuiyan
Undergrad Student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Lingyi Kong
Undergrad Student at Southeast University
Yuchen Zhu (Intern 24 Summer - 25 Summer, next step: PhD student at Northwestern University)
Eilis Casey (PhD student at RPI 2024 - 2025, next step: PhD student at RPI)
Haochen Luo (Intern 24 Fall, next step: PhD student at Zhejiang University)
Lingjun Xiong (Intern 24 Fall, next step: PhD student at George Mason University)
Kecheng Liu (intern 24 Fall, next step: PhD student at University of Maryland)
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