Summary
Cheng Qian is a software engineer with a decade of experience building ML-driven systems, currently contributing at Google after roles at Amazon and Cadence. He co-architected and led development of the Virtuoso Machine Learning Platform for EDA, driving an alpha release in six months and authoring multiple patents from DARPA-funded automation work. His background spans research-to-productization of ML/DL infrastructure and core algorithm development for automated analog design (placement, sizing, routing). Cheng combines hands-on engineering, mentoring, and customer engagement, and has a solid academic foundation with an MCDS from Carnegie Mellon. Notably, he has repeatedly turned research prototypes into production-ready platforms that accelerate hardware designers’ workflows.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering at Fudan University
Master Computational Data Science(MCDS), Master Computational Data Science(MCDS) at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English