Guo-jun Qi is a Changjiang Chair Professor and AI leader with nine years of industry-focused research and academic experience bridging multimodal machine learning, computer vision, and reliable information integration. He directs the MAPLE lab and has founded and scaled research centers (OPPO Seattle) while serving as Chief Scientist/VP at Futurewei, driving applied R&D in multimodal AIGC, smart cities, and visual computing. Trained with a PhD from UIUC and roots at USTC, his work targets general-purpose AI that fuses images, audio, sensor and text data for situational awareness and robust decision-making in open connected environments. He combines deep academic theory with product-driven engineering—delivering technologies for avatars, multimodal LLMs, and on-device efficient generation—while fostering university and industry collaborations. Based in Bellevue and holding adjunct ties at Westlake University, he uniquely moves innovations from lab prototypes into deployed systems across mobile, cloud, and edge settings.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Engineering, Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, Doctor of Engineering, Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence at University of Science and Technology of China
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Guo-jun Qi - Changjiang Chair Professor at Westlake University