Summary
Zhiqiang Que is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Bristol with a decade of experience spanning academic research and industry engineering in ML/AI systems, hardware accelerators, and hardware–software co-design. He completed a PhD at Imperial College London and transitioned from hands-on CPU and FPGA design roles at Marvell, Xilinx, and China Financial Futures Exchange into research focused on efficient, trustworthy ML for real-time and edge inference. His work blends RTL-level expertise (CPU microarchitecture, dividers, load/store units) with algorithmic acceleration and design automation, giving him rare end-to-end visibility from silicon to models. At Imperial he led projects on high-performance FPGA computing and CT reconstruction, and he continues as a visiting scholar while lecturing, bridging cutting-edge research with teaching. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic timing/power trade-offs and for translating academic advances into deployable hardware-aware AI systems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Imperial College London
Graduate Computer System, Graduate Computer System at Shanghai Jiao Tong University