CV
Contact Information
| Name | Meng Wang |
| Professional Title | Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Engineering |
| Location | 4025 Fred Kaiser Building, 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4 |
| Website | https://meng-ubc.github.io |
Education
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2020 - Present Vancouver, BC, Canada
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of British Columbia
- Advisor: Prof. Prashant J. Nair
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2020 Vancouver, BC, Canada
BASc in Computer Engineering
The University of British Columbia
- Graduated with Distinction
Experience
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Sep 2024 - Sep 2025 Richland, WA, USA
Ph.D. Research Intern
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mentor: Dr. Ang Li
- Led research on architectural optimizations for fault-tolerant quantum computing, resulting in an accepted paper at ISCA 2026 focused on transpiler-architecture co-design to curb Clifford costs, with follow-up work currently in preparation for HPCA 2027.
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Oct 2022 - Aug 2023 Richland, WA, USA
Ph.D. Research Intern
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mentors: Dr. Ang Li and Dr. Bo Fang
- Participated in developing simulation frameworks leveraging leading HPC systems including Frontier, Summit, and Perlmutter to simulate large-scale quantum circuits on GPU clusters. The simulation framework is open-sourced at NWQ-Sim.
- Led research improving the efficiency of classical optimization in Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), resulting in the publication of Red-QAOA (ASPLOS 2024), which introduces a novel circuit reduction technique for efficient variational optimization.
Invited Talks and Guest Lectures
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Seminar
From Circuits to Systems: Rethinking How Quantum Computation is RealizedNorth Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USAHost: Prof. Huiyang ZhouJuly 2026 -
Guest lecture
Pushing the Boundaries of NISQ ComputingThe University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USAHost: Prof. Poulami DasNovember 2024 -
Invited talk
Rethinking Variational Quantum Optimization through Circuit-Level EfficiencyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USAHost: Prof. Swamit TannuAugust 2023
Professional Service
- Technical Program Committee, MICRO 2026, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture.
Research Software Infrastructure
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NWQEC
Led development of a C++/Python toolkit for fault-tolerant quantum circuit transpilation, including OpenQASM parsing, Clifford+T synthesis, T-count analysis, Pauli-based circuit optimization, and Clifford reduction passes for QEC-oriented compilation research.
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NWQ-Sim
Core contributor to a quantum system simulation environment for multi-node, multi-CPU/GPU HPC systems, supporting state-vector and density-matrix simulation with frontends including QASM, Qiskit, QIR/Q#, and XACC.
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QASMTrans
Core contributor to a C++ OpenQASM transpiler for mapping quantum circuits to NISQ devices under vendor-specific basis-gate and qubit-topology constraints, with support for IBMQ, Rigetti, IonQ, and Quantinuum-style backends.
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XACC
Contributed to XACC, an extensible hybrid quantum-classical programming and compilation framework with language frontends, backend compilation components, and a quantum intermediate representation for QPUs and simulators.
Mentoring
- Mentored Aaron Hoyt from the University of Washington on QASMTrans, contributing to an accepted journal paper at Transactions on Quantum Computing.
- Mentored Sean Garner from the University of Washington on quantum error-correction noise simulation, contributing to a publication in Physical Review Research.
- Mentored Avinash Kumar from the University of Texas at Austin on Qontext, a project on secure context switching for multi-programmed near-term quantum computers.
Teaching Experience
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Teaching Assistant
UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- CPEN 312 - Digital Systems and Microcomputers, January 2024 - April 2024
- CPSC 322 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, July 2022 - August 2022
- APSC 160 - Introduction to Computation in Engineering Design, January 2022 - April 2022
- CPEN 411 - Computer Architecture, September 2021 - December 2021
- CPSC 340 - Machine Learning and Data Mining, January 2021 - April 2021
Awards
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Student Travel Grant
ASPLOS 2024, MICRO 2024, ISCA 2025, ISCA 2026
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Faculty of Applied Science Graduate Award
UBC
Annual award received in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, subject to annual review and criteria fulfillment.
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APSC Capstone Faculty Award
UBC, May 2020
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Dean's Honour List
UBC, June 2019
Skills
- Programming languages: Verilog, C, C++, CUDA, HIP, MPI, Java, Python, ARMv7 Assembly, Racket
- Hardware: System-on-Chip (SoC), FPGA