Prof. Qiu Cheng-Wei

Professor Qiu Cheng-Wei, Provost’s Chair Professor and Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore, is internationally recognized for his research in structured light, metasurfaces, and thermal photonics. He is Fellow of APS, Optica, SPIE, The Electromagnetics Academy (US), Chinese Optical Society (Foreign Fellow), and ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology. Prof. Qiu has published over 600 peer-reviewed papers, including as corresponding author in Science (4), Nature (9), Physical Review Letters (30+), PNAS (10), Nature Photonics (8), Nature Materials (6), Nature Nanotechnology (5), Nature Electronics (4), Nature Physics (2), Nature Communications (30+), Science Advances (11), Nature Reviews Physics (1), Nature Reviews Materials (2), Chemical Reviews (4), etc. His honors include the SUMMA Graduate Fellowship (2005), IEEE AP-S Graduate Research Award (2006), URSI Young Scientist Award (2008), MIT TR35@Singapore (2012), Singapore Young Scientist Award (2013), SPIE Rising Researcher Award (2018), NUS Engineering Researcher Award (2021), World Scientific Medal (2021), IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer (2023), and President’s Science Award (2023), the highest science accolade in Singapore.