Qian is the co-founder of DBOS and co-leads engineering.  She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University, advised by Christos Kozyrakis, and worked closely with Matei Zaharia (CTO of Databricks and creator of Spark) and Mike Stonebraker (creator of Postgres) on the DBMS-oriented Operating System (DBOS) academic project, which is the foundation of DBOS, Inc. She has broad interests in computer systems, databases, architecture, and abstractions for efficient and reliable cloud computing.  Prior to joining Stanford,  she received her B.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology from Peking University.