Yanqing joined NVIDIA Research in January of 2014. Prior to joining nVidia, he was a research assistant at the Robust Low Power VLSI research group at the University of Virginia (UVA), where he received his PhD degree in 2013. While at UVA, his research focuses were on low power SoCs, sub-threshold digital circuit design, variation aware timing closure, and variation aware circuit design. Since joining NVIDIA, his research directions include machine learning for EDA applications, digital VLSI methodology, variation resilient digital design, and latch-based timing.