Xunfei Jiang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and a faculty member of the CSUN Autonomy Research Center for STEAHM (ARCS). She is also the Principal Investigator (PI) for the NSF REU Site: Applying Data Science on Energy-efficient Cluster Systems and Applications.

She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China, in 2004 and 2007. Then she joined Digital Video Networks Co., Ltd. in 2007 and Cisco Systems (Shanghai) Video Technology Co., Ltd. in 2010. She received the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University in 2014. She joined Earlham College as an Assistant Professor from 2014 to 2020, where she had taught a broad range of computer science courses and led the Green Science Applied Group and student faculty research, and served as the faculty advisor for ACM-W Student Chapter. She joined California State University, Northridge in fall 2020 and has served as the faculty advisor for CSUN ACM Student Chapter since then. She has taught COMP490 Senior Design Project and COMP380 Introduction of Software Engineering.

Her research interests include parallel and distributed systems, energy-efficient storage systems, load balancing, thermal modeling, hybrid data storage systems, big data, cloud computing, spatial database, etc. She has published more than 30 papers and had served as reviewers for more than 10 journals and program committee for several conferences.

She has been working on promoting female and under-represented students in Computer Science study for the past six years, and she had encouraged and brought students to attend various conferences, such as Grace Hopper Conferece, Tapia, and ACM SIGCSE.