Dr. Qi is an Associate Clinical Professor of Clinical Cytogenetics in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and Assistant Director of UCSF Clinical Cytogenetics laboratory. He is American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ABMGG) certified in Clinical Cytogenetics.

Dr. Qi received his doctorate from Nankai University in Tianjin, China. He completed his ABMGG residency training in Clinical Cytogenetics at UCSF.

Before joining UCSF, Dr. Qi was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include genomic and epigenetic study of chromosome changes in cancer and constitutional genetic disorders.