Qi is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of International Chinese Studies of ECNU. With a doctoral degree from Fudan University, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan in the US, a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge in the UK, and a member of Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program. He is involved in linguistics and applied linguistics, offering courses including Language Typology and Grammar Teaching in International Chinese Language Education. He is a principal investigator of projects of National Social Science Fund, projects of Humanities and Social Science Fund of the Ministry of Education, and surface-funded projects of China Postdoctoral Science Fund. He has published papers in CSSCI source journals such as Linguistic Sciences and published a monograph, Focus Studies of Contemporary Chinese Language. He won the Excellence Award of the 4th Youth Outstanding Paper Award for Language and Writing Applications, and first prize of the 2nd and 3rd Shanghai Outstanding Paper Award for Young Language Scholars, etc.
