About me

I am a postdoctor at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University. Cooperation Supervisor is Prof. Xiaoshe Dong. My research interests lie in parallel computing and high-performance cryptography.

Research Interests

Parallel Computing
High-Performance Cryptography
MPI Communication Modeling

Employment

March 2025 - present: Assistant Professor (Postdoctor), School of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University

Educational Background

Sep 2021 - Dec 2024: Xi’an Jiaotong University (PhD candidate)
Nov 2023 - Oct 2024: National University of Singapore (CSC Funded)
Sep 2018 - Jun 2021: Xi’an Jiaotong University (MESc)
Sep 2014 - Jun 2018: Hefei University of Technology (BEng)

Research Experiences

Parallel Computing

Sep 2018 - now
Supervised by Prof. Heng Chen (2018-2021)
Supervised by Prof. Xiaoshe Dong (2021-2024)
Research Topics: MPI communication modeling and optimization, computational fluid dynamics, High-performance Cryptography

High-Performance Cryptography

Sep 2021 - now
Supported by Prof. Xiaoshe Dong
Research Topics: Parallel Algorithm Designs of Post-quantum Cryptography such as XMSS, LMS and SPHINCS+

MPI Communication Modeling

Sep 2018 - now
Supervised by Prof. Heng Chen (2018-2021)
Research Topics: two-sided communication, one-sided communication, collective communication

Competitions

The 5th China Parallel Application Challenge on domestic CPU (CPC2021): National Champion, Preliminary and final: Transformer optimization, 2021
The 16th National Post-graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling: National First Prize, Rapid track planning of intelligent aircraft under multiple constraints, 2019

Selected Publications

Ziheng Wang, Xiaoshe Dong, Yan Kang, Heng Chen, Qiang Wang, CUSPX: Efficient GPU Implementations of Post-Quantum Signature SPHINCS+, ACM Transactions on Computers (TC), 2024, 74(1): 15-28, CCF A, Link
Ziheng Wang, Xiaoshe Dong, Yan Kang, Heng Chen, Qiang Wang, An Example of Parallel Merkle Tree Traversal: Post-Quantum Leighton-Micali Signature on the GPU, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), 2024, 21(3): 1-25, CCF A, Link
Ziheng Wang, Xiaoshe Dong, Heng Chen, Yan Kang, Efficient GPU implementations of post-quantum signature XMSS, IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2023, 34(3): 938-954, CCF A, pub-data: 2 Jun 2023, Link