Qinyu Chen
Assistant Professor
Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
Faculty of Science
Leiden University
Leiden, The Netherlands
Research interests:
Hardware&algorithm co-design
Brain-inspired AI
Bio-signal processing
Embedded Large Language Models
Towards scenarios in healthcare, AR/VR, robotics, etc.
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Qinyu Chen has been an Assistant Professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, The Netherlands, since February 2024. She received her PhD in Electronic Science and Technology from Nanjing University in 2021 (supervised by Prof. Li Li) and her BEng in Communication Engineering from Shandong University (supervised by Prof. Haixia Zhang) in 2016. From 2019 to 2020, she was a visiting PhD student, and from 2022 to 2024, a postdoctoral researcher at the Sensors Group, Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, working with Prof. Shih-Chii Liu and Prof. Tobi Delbruck.
Her research integrates neuroscience, computer science, and electronics to develop compact, energy-efficient, neuro-inspired intelligent systems for applications in healthcare, extended reality, and robotics. She published in journals and conferences including TCAS-I, TCAS-II, TVLSI, TBIOCAS, TCAD, TCASAI, ICRA, CVPR, ISCAS, BIOCAS, and AICAS, etc.
Her contributions have been recognized with awards such as the 2022 BRIDGE Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), nomination to AcademiaNet, and the Best Paper Award Honorable Mention from the IEEE Neural Systems and Applications Technical Committee (NSATC) in 2024. She actively serves on technical committees for major conferences and workshops, including IEEE NSATC (since 2022), CVPR AI for Streaming Workshop (2024), IEEE Standards Workshop on AI for Healthcare (2024), NICE Conference (2025), CVPR Event-based Vision Workshop (2025), and FPL (2025).
How to Find Us?
Email: q.chen@liacs.leidenuniv.nl
Office room BM.3.05
Gorlaeus Building
Einsteinweg 55
2333 CC Leiden, the Netherlands