Qing An is a Tier-3 professor and Vice Dean at School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuchang University of Technology. He graduated from the School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and was a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

He concurrently serves as a review expert for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and provincial-level science projects and awards in Hubei, Jiangxi, and other regions. He is a Chief Director of the "Electronics Science and Information Technology" discipline cluster, and and Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member for over 10 international journals.

As the first inventor, he has been granted 38 national invention patents and registered 36 software copyrights. He has published 12 academic monographs and over 160 high-level SCI/EI-indexed papers in IEEE TRANS. journals. He has been invited multiple times to deliver Oral Reports at international conferences.

He was selected for the "3551 Optics Valley Talent Program" Innovation (Long-term) Talent (2019), Wuhan "Yellow Crane Talent" Industrial Leadership Talent (2020), and "Hubei Industrial Professor" (2021).