About

I’m a third 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

[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).
[arxiv]
[SIGMETRICS ‘25] Space-time Peer-to-Peer Distribution of Multi-party Entanglement for Any Quantum Network
Yuexun Huang, Xiangyu Ren, Bikun Li, Yat Wong, Zhiding Liang, Liang Jiang.
ACM SIGMETRICS 2025.
[arxiv] [link]

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

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]

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
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Physical Review A (PRA)
ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing (TQC)
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)

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.