We are pleased to announce that Cheng Wei Qiu, an internationally renowned expert in optics and metamaterials and the Dean of the Department of Electronic and Computational Engineering at the National University of Singapore, has been elected as a corresponding member of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI) in the United States. This honor fully recognizes his outstanding achievements in scientific research, technological innovation, and academic leadership.

Academic background and career

Professor Cheng Wei Qiu graduated with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2003. In 2008, he obtained a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and Sup é lec, a French university. His career began with postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and he joined the National University of Singapore in 2009, serving as an assistant professor and associate professor (tenure track). Elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Electromagnetics in 2021; Elected as a Fellow of the American Optical Society in 2022; Elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology Sciences, and a Fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering in 2023; Elected as a Foreign Fellow of the Chinese Optical Society in 2024; Academician of the Singapore Academy of Engineering; He has long been committed to research in cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence assisted metasurfaces, structured light, and the interaction between light and matter, and is internationally recognized as a leading figure in interdisciplinary innovation. Research achievements and innovative contributions

Professor Cheng Wei Qiu's research achievements have profound academic influence and industrial application value. He has made multiple breakthroughs in the fields of metasurface design, thermal metamaterials, and optical field control: 1. Metasurfaces and nanophotonics: proposed a programmable metasurface imaging technology based on machine learning, developed multidimensional optical field control methods, and published relevant results in top journals such as Nature Communications and Scientific Advances, and was selected as the "Optical Breakthrough of the Year" by Nature Photonics. 2. Thermal metamaterials and thermal camouflage: Pioneering a double-layer thermal invisibility cloak to achieve precise control of heat flow. Related research was recommended by the editor of Physical Review Letters and featured in a special report by Nature Materials. 3. Optical force and particle manipulation: The first experimental verification of the "non gradient optical tweezers" theory has opened up new paths for micro - and nano scale particle manipulation, and the results have been selected by the editors of Physical Review Letters. He has published over 500 SCI papers with more than 57000 citations (H-index 129), including more than 70 papers in Science, Nature, and their journals, and has been granted over 30 patents in Singapore and the United States. The team led projects such as "Terahertz Intelligent Metasurface 6G Communication" have received over SGD 20 million in support from Singapore's national research fund.

Honors and Academic Leadership

Professor Cheng Wei Qiu has won numerous international awards, including the Singapore Presidential Science Award (2023), Outstanding Lecturer at the IEEE Photonics Society (2023), Fellow of the American Physical Society (2023), and has been selected as a "Global Highly Cited Scientist" by Clarivate Analytics for five consecutive years. He serves as the founding editor in chief of eLight (Impact Factor 27.2), deputy editor in chief of Photonics Research, and leads international academic conferences such as the Asian Optics Conference and the International Symposium on Nanooptics and Plasmas, promoting cooperation and exchange in the global field of photonics.

Talent cultivation and social impact

Professor Cheng Wei Qiu focuses on cultivating young scientists, and more than 30 of his team's graduates have become professors at globally renowned universities or chief technology officers of high-tech enterprises. He has been invited multiple times to give keynote speeches at top universities such as Cambridge and Oxford, and has served as an international reviewer for the EU ERC Fund and the Israel Science Foundation, injecting innovative vitality into the global scientific research ecosystem.