Qirong received her MS and PhD degree in Computer Science and Technology from Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, P. R. China in 2002 and 2009. She worked for one year at the Wayne State University and the University of Michigan as a visiting scholar advised by Dr. Ming Dong. She is currently a professor of the School of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Jiangsu University.

     Her research interests include affective computing, speech processing, pattern recognition, and multimedia analysis. Her research is supported by the Key Project of National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Jiangsu province, and the Education Department of Jiangsu province. She has published over 50 technical articles, some of them in premium journals and conferences such as ACM Multimedia, CVPR, ICME, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Speech Communication, ICASSP etc.. She is a senoir member of the IEEE and ACM.