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. In the meantime, I am co-advised by Dr. Zhiding Liang from CUHK. Prior to this, I worked with Dr. Shengyu Zhang and Dr. Yi-Cong Zheng as a research intern at the Tencent Quantum Lab.

Publications

[ISCA ‘26] Efficient Qubit Routing for Diverse Quantum ISAs via Canonical Representation
Zhaohui Yang, Kai Zhang, Xinyang Tian, Xiangyu Ren, Yingjian Liu, Yunfeng Li, Dawei Ding, Jianxin Chen, Yuan Xie.
The 53rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA ‘26).
[arxiv]
[DAC ‘26] Compiler Framework for Directional Transport in Zoned Neutral-Atom Systems with AOD Assistance: A Hybrid Remote CZ Approach
Lingyi Kong, Chen Huang, Zhemin Zhang, Yidong Zhou, Xiangyu Ren, Shaochen Li and Zhiding Liang.
The 63nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC ‘26).

[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]
Qubit Mapping and Routing tailored to Advanced Quantum ISAs: Not as Costly as You Think
Zhaohui Yang, Kai Zhang, Xinyang Tian, Xiangyu Ren, Yingjian Liu, Yunfeng Li, Jianxin Chen, Dawei Ding, Yuanx Xie.
[arxiv]

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

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.