Qiang Xu is a Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His current research interests are in the broad areas of AI and EDA. He has published 180+ papers with 8000+ citations, including several best papers at prestigious conferences and an ICCAD Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper. He has supervised ~20 Ph.D. dissertations and his students have won EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award and the semi-finals of IEEE TTTC Doctoral Thesis Awards.