Xiao Qin

Xiao Qin received the BS and MS degrees in computer science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1992 and 1999, respectively. He received the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2004. Currently, he is an Alumni Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University. Prior to joining Auburn University in 2007, he had been an assistant professor with New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) for three years. He won an NSF CAREER award in 2009.

His research interests include parallel and distributed systems, storage systems, fault tolerance, real-time systems, and performance evaluation. His research is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Auburn University, and Intel Corporation. He has been on the program committees of various international conferences, including IEEE Cluster, IEEE MSST, IEEE IPCCC, and ICPP. He is a senior member of the IEEE.