Professor Zhang Rui
Professor Zhang Rui has been appointed NUS Provost’s Chair Professorship from 2021 to 2023. Provost’s Chairs are established to recognize Professors who excel in research quality and impact.
Prof Zhang’s current research interests include UAV/satellite communication, wireless power transfer, reconfigurable MIMO, and optimization methods. He has published over 400 papers in the field of wireless communications, which have been cited more than 47,000 times, with the h-index over 100. He has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics since 2015. Prof Zhang has won many prestigious awards for his research and has actively served in the profession. He is currently an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, serves as a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and is also a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Signal Processing Society and IEEE Communications Society. Prof Zhang has also served as the TPC Co-Chair or Organising Committee for over 30 international conferences.
For more info : https://cde.nus.edu.sg/ece/staff/zhang-rui/
As Provost’s Chair Professor, Prof Zhang Rui would contribute to the University’s continuous efforts to strengthen its international standing.
Associate Professor Qui Chengwei
Associate Professor Qui Chengwei has been appointed Dean’s Chair in Engineering from 2021 to 2023. This is Assoc. Prof Qiu’s second time appointment as Dean’s Chair, his first appointment being from 2017 to 2020. The appointment is in recognition of his 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, 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. For more info : https://cde.nus.edu.sg/ece/staff/qiu-cheng-wei/
