About the CCOE at Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University was awarded an NVIDIA CUDA Center of Excellence (CCOE) in 2009.   Tsinghua was selected for its commitment to furthering GPU computing research and their teaching of parallel programming courses based on the CUDA architecture.   The establishment of the Tsinghua CUDA Center of Excellence will provide a strategic opportunity for both China and NVIDIA to take a leading role in application-oriented HPC at a critical turning point for both computing technology and process engineering.   

About Tsinghua University
Established in 1911, Tsinghua University is the most prestigious technical university in China and one of the top technical universities in the world. Tsinghua University is a national leader in promoting parallel programming on the CUDA architecture with several classes being taught to many hundreds of student developers.   

The educational philosophy of Tsinghua is to "train students with integrity." Among over 120,000 students who have graduated from Tsinghua since its founding are many outstanding scholars, eminent entrepreneurs and great statesmen remembered and respected by their fellow Chinese citizens. 

With the motto of “Self-Discipline and Social Commitment” and the spirit of “Actions Speak Louder than Words”, Tsinghua University is dedicated to the well-being of Chinese society and to world development. 

About the PI
Chen Wenguang received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Tsinghua University in 1995 and 2000 respectively.  He was the CTO of Opportunity International Inc. from 2000-2002. He joined Tsinghua University in January 2003 and is now a professor and associate head in Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. His research interest is in parallel and distributed computing, programming model and mobile cloud computing.

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