Qian Depei (1952.8—) is a professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering and a fellow of the China Computer Federation (CCF).

Prof. Qian received the bachelor’s degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1977 and the master's degree from the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas in 1984. From 1991 to 1992, he was a senior visiting scholar at the University of Hannover, Germany.

Prof. Qian has been working on computer architecture and high performance computing system for many years. He presided over the research and development of a national high performance computing network (CNGrid), and proposed a systematic method to improve multi-core parallel programming. As the chief scientist of the national key R&D project on high performance computing, Prof. Qian established the architecture and technical scheme of high performance computers, bringing about the leapfrog development in this field.

He has won nine science and technology awards at the provincial level or above, including two second prizes of the State Science and Technology Progress Award (2007, 2020). He holds 30 authorized invention patents and has published over 400 papers in journals and conferences.