Quan Quan received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), China in 2004 and 2010, respectively. He currently serves as a professor at Beihang University. He is also the director of the reliable flight control group at Beihang University. His main research interests include vision-based navigation and reliable flight control.

To date, he has published more than 80 peer-reviewed journal papers, including International Journal of Robotic Research, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Automatic Control, Mechatronics, Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Reliability and AIAA Transactions on Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. In addition, he has launched a design evaluation web for small aircraft.