Associate Professor Qiu Chengwei has been appointed as Dean’s Chair in the Faculty of Engineering from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2020.
The Dean’s Chair appointment is in recognition of Assoc. Prof Qiu’s outstanding and impactful scholarly accomplishments.
Assoc. Prof Qiu 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, and Faculty Young Research Award in NUS 2013.
His research interests are in the areas of electromagnetic wave theory of transformation optic metamaterials, light-matter interaction, and nanophotonics.. He has published over 150 papers in well-known scientific journals such as Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials, Nano Lett./ACS Nano, Light: Sci. Appl., Advanced Functional Materials, etc..
Assoc. Prof Qiu’s 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 EPJ, Scientific Reports, and Topical Editor for JOSA B, and General Chairs and TPC Chairs in various conferences.
