Ma Qi was born in April 1968, and he is from Shaoxing, Zhejiang. He received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, in 1990 and 2000, respectively. Now he is a professor in the College of Electronics and Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University. His research interests include VLSI/SoC design, IC design methodology, and embedded system design, etc.
He undertook or participated in multiple scientific research projects, such as national major science and technology projects, 863 projects, national and provincial natural science funds, and provincial and ministerial science and technology projects. So far, nearly a hundred academic papers related to EDA, IC design, and embedded system development have been published. Formerly he served as the head of Public Service Platform of the Hangzhou National IC Design Industrialization Base /Zhejiang Province IC Design Public Technology Platform for a long time (2004-2016).