Chair Professor Jiang Xingyu obtained his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1999 and his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 2004. His Ph.D. supervisor was professor George Whitesides. In 2005, he began to work at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2018, he became a chair professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology.

Xingyu won the “National Distinguished Youth Science Fund” in 2010. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) and American Institude of Medical and Biological Engneering. He has published more than 300 papers.

His research interests include microfluidic chips and nanobiomedicine.