Summary
Hang Qiu is an Assistant Professor and director of the Collaborative Intelligence Systems Lab (CISL) at UC Riverside with a decade of experience bridging academic research and industry engineering. His background includes a PhD from USC, a postdoc and instructing role at Stanford, and hands-on software engineering at Waymo and research stints at Microsoft and IBM, giving him deep expertise in intelligent systems and autonomous technologies. He moves fluidly between publishing novel research and building production-ready software, evidenced by roles from research intern to full-time engineer on safety-critical perception stacks. Based in the United States, he combines rigorous academic training with practical product experience and leads interdisciplinary teams to translate advanced machine learning ideas into deployable systems. An understated strength is his consistent progression through both top-tier labs and industry teams, reflecting an ability to scale research impact from prototype to real-world deployment.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Southern California
Postdoctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering, Postdoctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University