Prof. Feng Miao

Vice dean of School of Physics and the director of Institue of Brain-inspired Intelligence (IBI),
Nanjing University.


Feng Miao is currently the director of Institute of Brain-inspired Intelligent at Nanjing University, and the vice dean of School of Physics, Nanjing University. He joined Nanjing University as a full Professor and a Principal Investigator at Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures in July 2012. He received his Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of California, Riverside, United States, in 2009. Then he worked with HP Laboratories, Palo Alto, California, as a research associate for three years. He is a NSFC (National Science Fund of China) Distinguished Young Scholar, and the Chief Scientist of a National Key Basic Research Program. He has published over 110 technical papers (over 25000 citations, H index of 56, Web of Science) and is the inventor of over 30 issued/pending patents. His awards include: Chinese Physical Society “Huang Kun” Award (2020-2021), IAAM Medal (International Association of Advanced Materials, Sweden) (2021), China "Leading Scientists, Engineers and Innovators" (2019), Clarivate Analytics "Highly Cited Researchers" (2018), China "Young and Middle-aged Leading Scientists, Engineers and Innovators" (awarded by ministry of science and technology, China) (2018), "Jiangsu Youth Stars of Science and Technology" (Jiangsu province government) (2018), Poe Memorial Scholarship Award (University of California, Riverside) (2009), etc. His research is currently focused on electronic transport of two-dimensional materials and their applications for nanoelectronics, including emerging memory, advanced optoelectronics and brain-inspired computing.