Presenter

Qinglei Cao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Saint Louis University (SLU), where he leads the Omni Computing Lab. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, under the mentorship of Dr. Jack Dongarra (Turing Award 2021) and Dr. George Bosilca. He holds a B.S. from Hunan University and an M.E. from Ocean University of China. Prior to joining SLU, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tennessee and a Member of Technical Staff at Cerebras Systems. Dr. Cao’s research focuses on High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), with expertise in parallel and distributed computing, task-based runtime systems, linear algebra algorithms, large-scale machine learning, and extreme-scale scientific applications. He received the Best Paper Award at IEEE CLUSTER 2020 and was awarded the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling in 2024. He was also a Gordon Bell Prize finalist in both 2022 and 2024.