Pingqiang Zhou is currently a tenured associate professor at SIST and serves as the vice dean in charge of undergraduate education.

Prior to joining ShanghaiTech, he was with the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights NY USA as a research intern in 2011 and with the University of Minnesota as a Post-Doctoral Researcher from 2012 to 2013. He was also with the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley as a visiting scholar in 2015. His research interests include EDA, machine learning/deep learning for IC design, AI chip and computer architecture. He has published more than 50 internationally peer-reviewed journal and conference papers on these topics. He serves as the Associate Editor for ACM SIGDA Newsletter and has been serving/served on the technical committees of more than 10 international conferences. He received the B. Tech. degree from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2005, the M. Eng. degree from Tsinghua University in 2007 and the Ph.D. degree from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2012.