Summary
Qiang Guan is an associate professor and co-founder with a decade of experience bridging academic research and national-lab practice in cloud/HPC systems, resilience, and quantum computing. He directs the GUANS lab at Kent State and serves as a guest scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he led projects converging HPC and big data and developed PFSEFI. An NSF Early Career Award recipient (2023), he blends expertise in cloud dependability, failure prediction, power-aware virtualization, and data-driven performance modeling with applied work in AR/VR and AI for science. His background spans embedded biometrics and firmware to large-scale resilience analysis, reflecting a rare combination of low-level systems engineering and high-performance/cloud research. Based in Kent, Ohio, he recently co-founded Qradle Inc., signaling a move to translate research advances into practical products.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Engineering, Master's degree, Information Engineering at 명지대학교 / Myongji University
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Northeastern University (CN)
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering at University of North Texas
English, Korean, Chinese