Qingnan obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo, his master’s degree from University of British Columbia and his PhD degree from Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.

Qingnan’s research interests include robust 3D geometry processing, computational fabrication and physics-based simulation.  He also maintains the open source python-based geometry processing library pymesh and contributes to the popular C++ header-only geometry processing library libigl.