Xipeng Shen is an associate professor at the Computer Science Department, North Carolina State University (NCSU). He has been an IBM Canada CAS Research Faculty Fellow since 2010, and a receipt of the 2010 NSF CAREER Award, 2011 DOE Early Career Award, and 2015 Google Faculty Research Award. Before joining NCSU, he was an Adina Allen Term Distinguished Associate Professor at the College of William and Mary.