Summary
Mian Qin is a Senior Member of Technical Staff on VMware’s VM Monitor team with a decade of experience designing and implementing memory subsystems and core virtualization features for hypervisors. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M and brings deep expertise in computer architecture, SW/HW co-design, and emerging memory/storage systems gained through research on KV-SSDs and FPGA-accelerated storage codes. At VMware he drives memory-focused innovations, reviews technical work for internal conferences, and has a track record of identifying performance issues in large VM migrations. His background includes published work and a US patent from FPGA and storage research at Samsung and Los Alamos, reflecting a strong bridge between academic research and production systems. Based in Boston, he balances low-level systems craft with practical implementation experience across kernel and hardware platforms—and, perhaps unexpectedly, is a guitarist in his spare time.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering, 3.88/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering, 3.88/4.0 at Texas A&M University
Master of Science (MS), Information and Communication Engineering, 2.52/3.3, Master of Science (MS), Information and Communication Engineering, 2.52/3.3 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, English