Boyu Qie was born and raised in Chengdu, China. In 2015, he received his B.S. summa cum laude in chemistry as the first graduating class of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), M.S. in materials science and engineering at Columbia University, and Ph.D. in chemistry at UC Berkeley working with Prof. Felix R. Fischer and collaborating with Prof. Michael F. Crommie and Prof. Steven G. Louie. Currently, Boyu is an Emerging Scholar Fellowship postdoc at the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP) and the Department of Chemistry at UC Berkeley.
His current research interests include the exploration of novel quantum matter by combining chemical synthesis with condensed matter physics (CMP); the investigation of emerging exotic quantum phenomena in novel CMP systems via various probing methods; next-generation materials and quantum architectures for beyond-CMOS electronics/spintronics/quantum tech; and AI for physical science.