Kun Qin, M.Sc

Doctoral Candidate & Research Associate

IH02 Chair of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, CAOS (Prof. Trinitis)
I10 Chair of Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems, CAPS (Prof. Schulz)
Department of Computer Engineering
School of Computation, Information and Technology
Technical University of Munich

Postal Address:
Bildungscampus 2, 74076 Heilbronn
Office: D.3.20

Email: kun.qin'at' tum.de

Research Interests

Hardware/software codesign
RISC-V and open-source architectures
FPGA/ASIC design and implementations
Quantum computing and quantum-based systems

Teaching

Introduction to HDL and Tools: WS23/24, SS24, WS24/25, WS25/26
TA: Introduction to Computer Architecture and Technology: WS23/24, WS24/25

Academic Services

Web chair of ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF'24, CF'25)
Publicity chair of ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF'26)

Publications

Kun Qin, Xiaorang Guo, Martin Schulz, and Carsten Trinitis. 2025. FERIVer: An FPGA-assisted Emulated Framework for RTL Verification of RISC-V Processors. In 22nd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF ’25), May 28–30, 2025, Cagliari, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3719276.3725174
“Best Poster Award” at SERESSA, December 4-7, Turin, Italy, 2023. Kun Qin and Carsten Trinitis. A compact high-precision FPGA-based Time-to-digital Converter. News
Xiaorang Guo, Kun Qin, and Martin Schulz, HiSEP-Q: A Highly Scalable and Efficient Quantum Control Processor for Superconducting Qubits, 2023 IEEE 41st International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Washington, DC, USA, 2023, pp. 86-93, DOI: 10.1109/ICCD58817.2023.00023
Kun Qin, Aswathy N. Sankaranarayanan, Taiki Okano, Martin Schulz, and Carsten Trinitis. 2026. Towards a RISC-V-based SmartNIC Architecture on FPGA. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF '26), May 19--21, 2026, Catania, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3801487.3805615
Nima Baradaran Hassanzadeh, Jakob Schäffeler, Kun Qin, Carsten Trinitis, and Martin Schulz. LIBERO: A Flexible, Lightweight GDB-based Visualization Tool for RISC-V Vector Extensions. In Proceedings of the 39th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, March 24-26, 2026, Mainz, Germany.