Prof. Cheng-Wei Qiu is Fellow of APS, Optica, SPIE and The Electromagnetics Academy, US. He is well known for his research in structured light and metasurfaces. He has published 500+ peer-reviewed journal papers, and as correspondence author, he has published in Science (3), Nature (7), Physical Review Letters (20+), PNAS (7), Nature Photonics (8), Nature Materials (3), Nature Nanotechnology (5), Nature Electronics (2), Nature Physics (2), Nature Communications (30+), Science Advances (11), Nature Reviews Physics (1), Nature Reviews Materials (2), Chemical Reviews (4), etc.
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 in NUS 2013, SPIE Rising Researcher Award 2018, Young Engineering Research Award 2018, and Engineering Researcher Award 2021 in NUS, World Scientific Medal 2021 by Institute of Physics Singapore, and Achievement in Asia Award (Robert T. Poe Prize) 2023 by International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers, IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer 2023, and President’s Science Award 2023 in Singapore.
He was Highly Cited Researchers by Web of Science since 2019. His work has been selected as Top 10 Breakthroughs 2020 by Physics World, and Optics in 2021 & 2023 by Optica. As an overseas partner, he has been awarded China’s Top 10 Optical Breakthroughs for 5 times (2019, 2020, twice in 2021, 2023). He has served as Associate Editor for various journals such as JOSA B, PhotoniX, Photonics Research. Now he serves as Editor-in-Chief for eLight. He also serves in Editorial Advisory Board for Laser and Photonics Reviews, Advanced Optical Materials, and ACS Photonics.
He has mentored next generation of academic scientists and industrial entrepreneurs. 26 out of his former phd students and postdoctoral research fellows have been Assistant, Associate and Full Professors, including Distinguished Young Scholars of NSFC (Overseas), Humboldt Scholar, and Nanyang Assistant Professor in Nanyang Technological University. Some of his former phd students have been CTO and CEO of high-tech companies in Singapore and China.