Qingrong Chen

Qingrong Chen is a Principal Engineer at Synopsys Inc since October 2023, with prior experience as a Staff Software Engineer and Software Development Engineer at Mentor Graphics from March 2019 to October 2023, focusing on OPC, IPC, and GPU computing. Previous roles include Staff Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer at Xtal Inc. (July 2015 - March 2019), specializing in computational lithography and high-performance computing. Qingrong also served as a Senior Engineer I at ASML, working on computational lithography and source mask optimization from April 2014 to July 2015. Academic background includes a Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University (2006 - 2014), a Master's in Astrophysics from Nanjing University (2002 - 2005), and a Bachelor's in Astronomy from Nanjing University (1998 - 2002).