Qingkai Qian (Associate Professor) was born in Yunnan, China. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees, both in physics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2012 and 2014, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in electronic and computer engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China in 2018. He was as a postdoctoral researcher in Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University from 2019 to 2020. He joined College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University in 2021, and currently is an Associate Professor.

His research interests are the optoelectronic devices based on perovskites, low-dimensional materials and their related optical property investigations based on first-principle calculations.