Xinheng "Asher" Ding | 丁欣恒
Hi, I am currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, fortunate to work with my awesome advisor, Dr. Zirui "Ray" Liu.
From August 2024 to July 2025, I spent a year as a Computer Engineering Ph.D. student at Indiana University Bloomington, where I was supervised by Dr. Dingwen Tao and Dr. Fengguang Song. Prior to that, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Department of Automation at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
🎯 I am striving to grow into a professional, active, and influential researcher. If you have any suggestions, comments, critiques, encouragement, or collaboration opportunities, feel free to share them with me—I would greatly appreciate it.(^_^)
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Research Interests
I am broadly interested in the fields related to high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence, and their intersection.
- High-Performance Computing: Parallel Computing, Parallel I/O, Data Compression
- Machine Learning: Large Language Model, Generative AI
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News
- 06/2025: One preprint available on arXiv.
- 12/2024: One preprint available on arXiv.
- 08/2024: Start my Ph.D. journey at Indiana University Bloomington.
- 06/2024: I graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) as an outstanding graduate. Many thanks to all the teachers and classmates who have supported me!
- 03/2024: I have received four Ph.D. offers in Computer Science, including from Indiana University Bloomington and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Give Me FP32 or Give Me Death? Challenges and Solutions for Reproducible Reasoning
Jiayi Yuan, Hao Li, Xinheng Ding, Wenya Xie, Yu-Jhe Li, Wentian Zhao, Kun Wan, Jing Shi, Xia Hu, Zirui Liu
Preprint, 2025
arXiv
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GFormer: Accelerating Large Language Models with Optimized Transformers on Gaudi Processors
Chengming Zhang, Xinheng Ding, Baixi Sun, Xiaodong Yu, Weijian Zheng, Zhen Xie, Dingwen Tao
Preprint, 2024
arXiv
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Selected Awards and Honors
- 2025: Luddy Doctoral Summer Fellowship, Indiana University Bloomington
- 2024: Outstanding Graduate of USTC
- 2021-2023: Cyrus Tang Scholarship, USTC Thrice
- 2021-2023: National Encouragement Scholarship, USTC Thrice
- 2022: Lanfeng Scholarship, USTC
- 2021: USTC Outstanding Student Scholarship, Silver
- 2020: USTC Freshman Scholarship
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