Investigator

— Co-Investigator —

Dr. Qiu Cheng Wei received the B.Eng. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2003, and the PhD degree from the Joint PhD.= Program between the National University of Singapore, Singapore and SUPELEC, France in 2007. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Physics Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology till the end of 2009, and in December 2009, he joined ECE Department of NUS as an Assistant Professor. Since Jan 2017, he has been promoted to be Associate Professor with tenure.

He was the recipient of the SUMMA Graduate Fellowship in Advanced Electromagnetics in 2005, IEEE AP-S Graduate Research Award in 2006, URSI Young Scientist Award in 2008, NUS Young Investigator Award in 2011, MIT TR35@Singapore Award in 2012, Young Scientist Award by Singapore National Academy of Science in 2013, Faculty Young Research Award 2013 in NUS, SPIE Rising Researcher Award 2018, Young Engineering Research Award 2018, Engineering Researcher Award 2021 in NUS, Top 10 Breakthroughs in Physics 2020 by Physics World.

His research interests are in the areas of electromagnetic wave theory of transformation optic metamaterials, light-matter interaction, and nanophotonics. He has published over 340 peer-reviewed journal papers, including Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials, Nano Lett./ACS Nano, Light: Sci. Appl., Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, etc. He was Highly Cited Researchers in 2019 and 2020 by Web of Science.

His research has been widely featured by media coverage, such as Science Magazine, Straits Times, MIT Technology Reviews, SPIE Newsroom, A&EN etc. He has given a number of keynotes and many Invited Talks in international conferences. He has been serving in Associate Editor for various journals such as PhotoniX, Photonics Research, and Editor-in-Chief for eLight. He also serves in Editorial Advisory Board for Laser and Photonics Review, Advanced Optical Materials, and ACS Photonics.