---
type: Public research university
title: Shandong University
description: Undergraduate institution of Xinbao Qiao.
tags:
  - en
  - institution
  - education
  - public-research-university
timestamp: '2026-05-05T20:55:21+08:00'
modified: '2026-07-02T20:03:20+08:00'
content_hash: 'sha256:b64a70b2a82421460cfe1bd75c931785572bf6b49508c8138d2e5866ed32ea8a'
reviewed_at: '2026-07-02T20:03:20+08:00'
review_due: '2026-12-29'
name: Shandong University
summary: Undergraduate institution of Xinbao Qiao.
person:
  label: Xinbao Qiao
  url: /wiki/Xinbao_Qiao/
program: Bachelor of Engineering in Communication Engineering
school: Undergraduate engineering study
dates: 2018-2022
place: 'Shandong, China'
focus: Communication engineering; signal and network foundations
image: /institutions/shandong-university-logo.png
image_caption: Seal and lettering of Shandong University
links:
  - label: Shandong University
    url: 'https://www.en.sdu.edu.cn/'
  - label: About Shandong University
    url: 'https://www.en.sdu.edu.cn/About.htm'
---
**Shandong University** (**SDU**) was [[Xinbao_Qiao|Xinbao Qiao]]'s undergraduate institution, where he received a Bachelor of Engineering in Communication Engineering in 2022. In the structure of this wiki, SDU is the first formal academic stage in Qiao's higher-education record and supplies the engineering background behind his later interest in [[AI_and_Networks|AI and networks]].[^sdu-about]

## Program

Qiao's undergraduate program was Communication Engineering. The program context matters because it gives a concrete technical origin for later research themes: communication constraints, distributed systems, signal flow, and networked data processing. Those themes reappear in later pages on [[Distributed_Learning|distributed learning]], [[Data_Silos|data silos]], and data pruning for decentralized learning.

## Academic context

Shandong University identifies its main body, Shandong Imperial College, as established in 1901 and describes it as one of the first institutions of modern higher education in China. The university is a broad comprehensive institution with campuses across Jinan, Qingdao, and Weihai. For this wiki, the relevant point is not the full institutional history, but the combination of engineering education and a large research-university setting that preceded Qiao's master's specialization in artificial intelligence.

## Connection to Qiao

The SDU phase is used in the biography to explain why Qiao's later machine-learning work often has a systems flavor. The line from communication engineering to AI is visible in research on [[AI_and_Networks|AI and networks]], where model behavior is studied together with communication, decentralization, and infrastructure. It is also visible in [[Machine_Unlearning|machine unlearning]] work where latency, update cost, and deployment constraints are treated as first-order questions rather than afterthoughts.

## See also

- [[Xinbao_Qiao]]
- [[Education]]
- [[AI_and_Networks]]
- [[Distributed_Learning]]
- [[Zhejiang_University]]

[^sdu-about]: Shandong University's English [About page](https://en.sdu.edu.cn/About.htm) describes the university as a key comprehensive university with a long history and broad disciplines, and its history section traces the main body to Shandong Imperial College in 1901.
