Qian Depei, born in August 1952, Han nationality, Haining, Zhejiang Province, is currently a professor at the School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a member of the Chinese Computer Society. He received his bachelor's degree from Xi 'an Jiaotong University in 1977, his master's degree from North Texas State University in 1984, and worked as a senior visiting scholar at the University of Hanover in Germany from 1991 to 1992.
He has long been engaged in computer architecture and high-performance computing system research. He solved the key technical problems of building a network computing environment based on dispersed, heterogeneous and dynamic resources, and presided over the development of the national high-performance computing environment CNGrid; A systematic method to improve the parallel programming of multiple cores is proposed, which promotes the widespread application of high performance computing. Served as the overall leader of national major projects in the direction of high performance computing for a long time, presided over the formulation of strategic objectives and implementation plans, established the architecture and technical plans of high performance computers, and realized the leapfrog development of high performance computers. Related achievements have won 9 science and technology awards above provincial and ministerial level, including the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress (2007,2020, ranking first), 30 authorized invention patents, and more than 400 published papers.
