Peng Qu

• Assistant Researcher

• Department of Computer Science and Technology

• Joined Department: 2022

• Email: qp2018@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

• Phone: 15210002898

• Fax: None

Education background

Bachelor of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2013;

Ph.D. in Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2018.

Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects

Research Areas

Computer Architecture, Brain-inspired computing

Research Projects

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Science Foundation Project)：A high-performance, learnable, and general SNN computing framework (2022-2025);

MEAC-SKL Open Foundation: High performance SNN simulation platform on GPGPU cluster (2020-2021);

Postdoctoral Program for “Brain+X” Seed Grant Program in IDG M^cGOVERN Institute for Brain Research at Tsinghua: A general cognitive system simulator based on tensors and symbolic system (2019-2021);

Research Status

My major research interests focus on computer architecture and brain-inspired computing.

Recently, together with Professor Youhui Zhang and other collaborators, I propose the concept of Turing Completeness and the system hierarchy for brain-inspired computing. This work combines the precise process capability of traditional Turing computing and the approximate capability of brain-inspired computing. The relevant paper was published in the Nature journal (co-first author). The review article published in the same issue believed that our work proposed a “breakthrough solution” for the tightly coupling problem of brain-inspired computing. It is the first Nature paper in the field of computer architecture in China. The related work was applied to the National Scientific and Technological Achievement Exhibition of “13^th Five Year”. It is also awarded the leading achievement specially recommended by Co-chairs of the Committee of World Internet Conference in 2020.

Honors And Awards

Excellent Postdoctoral Fellow of Tsinghua University (2021)

Leading achievement specially recommended by Co-chairs of the Committee of World Internet Conference: A system for brain-inspired computing (2020)

Academic Achievement

[1] Peng Qu^#, Hui Lin, Meng Pang, Xiaofei Liu, Weimin Zheng and Youhui Zhang*. ENLARGE: An Efficient SNN Simulation Framework on GPU Clusters, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2023, 34(9): 2529-2540.

[2] Youhui Zhang^#*, Peng Qu^#, Yu Ji^#, Weihao Zhang^#, Guangrong Gao, Guanrui Wang, Sen Song, Guoqi Li, Wenguang Chen, Weimin Zheng, Feng Chen, Jing Pei, Rong Zhao, Mingguo Zhao, Luping Shi*. A system hierarchy for brain-inspired computing, Nature, 2020, 586: 378-384.

[3] Peng Qu^#, Youhui Zhang*, Xiang Fei, Weimin Zheng. High Performance Simulation of Spiking Neural Network on GPGPUs, IEEE Tran. on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, 2020, 31(11): 2510-2523.

[4] Peng Qu^#, Jin Yan, Youhui Zhang*, Guang R. Gao. Parallel Turing Machine, a Proposal. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2017, 32(2): 269-285.