I’m a second year Ph.D. Candidate from Institute for Computer System Architecture of School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. My research interest includes quantum computing architecture, quantum EDA and fault-tolerant quantum computing.

I am very fortunate to be advised by Dr. Antonio Barbalace and Dr. Raul Garcia-Patron from the University of Edinburgh. Prior to this, I worked with Dr. Shengyu Zhang and Dr. Yi-Cong Zheng as a research intern at the Tencent Quantum Lab.

Publications

2025

• [DAC ‘25] A Scalable and Robust Compilation Framework for Emitter-Photonic Graph State.
  Xiangyu Ren, Yuexun Huang, Zhiding Liang, Antonio Barbalace.
  The 62nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC ‘25).
  

2024

• [DAC ‘24] Leveraging Machine Learning for Quantum Compilation Optimization.
  Xiangyu Ren, Tianyu Zhang, Xiong Xu, Yi-Cong Zheng, Shengyu Zhang.
  The 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC ‘24).
  [pdf] [link]

• [ICCAD ‘24] A Hardware-Aware Gate Cutting Framework for Practical Quantum Circuit Knitting.
  Xiangyu Ren, Mengyu Zhang, Antonio Barbalace.
  The 2024 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD ‘24).
  [arxiv]

• Tackling Coherent Noise in Quantum Computing via Cross-Layer Compiler Optimization
  Xiangyu Ren, Junjie Wan, Zhiding Liang, Antonio Barbalace.
  [arxiv]

• Space-time Peer-to-Peer Distribution of Multi-party Entanglement for Any Quantum Network
  Yuexun Huang, Xiangyu Ren, Bikun Li, Yat Wong, Liang Jiang.
  [arxiv]

2023

• A Scalable, Fast and Programmable Neural Decoder for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation Using Surface Codes
  Mengyu Zhang^, Xiangyu Ren^, Guanglei Xi, Zhenxing Zhang, Qiaonian Yu, Fuming Liu, Hualiang Zhang, Shengyu Zhang, Yi-Cong Zheng.
  [arxiv]

Service

• Program Committee. Quantum Computing Applications and Systems Workshop,
  co-located with the 43rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD ‘24)
• Organizing Committee. Special session at the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS ‘25),
  “Bridging Quantum Technology to the Industry Needs.”

  Conference Paper Reviewer

• The 62nd IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC ‘25).
• IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE ‘24)
• International Workshop on Quantum Classical Cooperative Computing,
  held in conjunction with the The 38th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS ‘24)

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant: Computer Architecture and Design, Fall 2024, University of Edinburgh.
• Teaching Assistant: Operating Systems, Winter 2023, University of Edinburgh.
• Teaching Assistant: Computer Architecture and Design, Fall 2023, University of Edinburgh.