Xipeng Shen is an associate professor at the Computer Science Department, North Carolina State University (NCSU). He is a receipt of NSF CAREER Award, DOE Early Career Award, and Google Faculty Research Award. He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker, and a senior member of IEEE. Prior to joining NC State in 2014, Shen was the Adina Allen Term Distinguished Associate Professor at The College of William and Mary. He had served as a consultant to Intel Labs and Cisco, and a Visiting Researcher at MIT and Microsoft Research. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Rochester in 2006.