Peng Xi, PhD

Dr. Peng Xi is a Boya distinguished professor at College of Future Technology, Peking University, China. His research interest is on the development of optical super-resolution microscopy techniques. He has been awarded the National Distinguished Young Scholar. He is the Chief scientist of the Key Research and Development Plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He is on the editorial board of 5 SCI-indexed journals such as Light: Science and Applications, and Advanced Photonics. With over 120 publications in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Photonics, and Nature Methods, his work has garnered more than 9000 citations. Dr. Xi has been recognized with numerous honors, including the China Optics Important Achievement Award (2016), the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Second Prize (2022, ranked 2nd), and a gold medal at the 11th International Invention Exhibition (2025, ranked 1st). He is a Fellow of OPTICA and IAAM. He actively shapes the international scientific community through plenary talks at major conferences and holds a robust patent portfolio of four U.S. and nineteen Chinese inventions.