Company/Organization:Chinese Academy of Sciences

Position/Title:Academician

Prof. Tie Jun Cui (IEEE Fellow) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 1993. He was awarded a Cheung Kong Professor by the Ministry of Education, China, in 2001, received the National Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2002, and became the Academician of Chinese Academy of Science in 2019. Currently, he is the director of the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Wave of Southeast University, the deputy director of the Academic Committee of Southeast University, the director of the Institute of Electromagnetic Space of Southeast University, the Standing Committee Member of the 13th Jiangsu Provincial People’s Congress, and the member of the Central Committee of Jiusan Society. In addition, he is now the director of Stealth Camouflage Professional Committee of China Ordnance Engineering Society, the deputy director of a department of Science and Technology Commission of Ministry of Education, the member of the Academic Committee of Pengcheng Laboratory, the member of the Academic Committee of Zhangjiang Laboratory, the member of Discipline Assessment Group of Academic Degrees Committee of The State Council, the member of Engineering Science Intersectional Expert Group of Ministry of Science and Technology, and the member of the Basic Research Expert Committee of the Science and Technology Commission of the Military Commission.
Prof. Cui has conducted systematic and in-depth research on electromagnetic metamaterials and electromagnetic scattering modeling of complex targets and complex environments, and has made a number of innovative achievements. He has taken the lead in undertaking the major projects and key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Key Research and Development Program of “Transformative Technology”, the key projects of the Science and Technology Commission of the Military Commission, the National 973 Plan, the National 863 theme project, the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, the major project of the “Supporting Plan” of the Ministry of Education, the project of the “Innovation and Intelligence Introduction Plan” of the Ministry of Education, the pre-research project of the General Equipment Department, the National Defense 973 project, the National Defense 863 project, etc.
Prof. Cui is the first author of books Metamaterials – Theory, Design, and Applications (Springer, Nov. 2009); Metamaterials: Beyond Crystals, Noncrystals, and Quasicrystals (CRC Press, Mar. 2016); and Information Metamaterials (Cambridge University Press, 2021). He has published over 500 international journal papers such as Science, Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, Proceeding of National Academy of Science of the United States, National Science Review, Light: Science and Applications, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Advanced Materials, and IEEE Transactions series, which have been cited by more than 43500 times (H-Factor 106; Google Scholar), and 30 of which have been selected as the highly cited paper. Prof. Cui received the Natural Science Award (first class) from the Ministry of Education, China, in 2011, the National Natural Science Awards of China (second class, twice), in 2014 and 2018, respectively, and the Military Science and Technology Progress Award (first class) in 2016. His research results have been published many times in the special reports of Nature Electronics, National Science Review, Nature News, Scientific American, Discovery, New Scientist, MIT-Technology Review, etc.