Biography

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), 2024 Dutch Research Council (NWO) VENI Talent Program, and the Best Paper Award Honorable Mention from the IEEE Neural Systems and Applications Technical Committee (NSATC) in 2024. She actively serves on organization/technical committees for 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), FPL (2025), and IROS Edge AI for Robotics Workshop.