The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently announced its list of new fellows for 2025.

Xiao Wei SUN, Chair Professor of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Executive Dean of the Institute of Nanoscience and Applications (INA) at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), has been elected an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to the field of optoelectronic materials and devices.

Xiao Wei SUN is a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering and an honorary doctorate of the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radio-electronics (BSUIR).

He is a Fellow of several academic societies, including the IEEE, the Optical Society of America (OSA), the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), the Society for Information Display (SID), and the Institute of Physics (IoP, UK). Notably, he was the first scholar from China mainland to be recognized as a Fellow of SID and has also been honored as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

He is also the recipient of numerous accolades, including the SPIE DCS 2024 Fumio Okano Best Paper Award, the 2023 Slottow-Owaki Prize, second prize in Natural Science from the Guangdong Science and Technology Award, and second prize in Natural Science from the Shenzhen Natural Science Award.

The IEEE is an international association of engineers and professionals in the area of electronic technology and information science. It is the world’s largest non-profit professional technical society, actively shaping the latest advancements in diverse technology fields like signal processing, power engineering, electronics, computers, communications, control systems, remote sensing, biomedicine, intelligent transportation, and space exploration.

IEEE Fellow is the highest honor awarded by the society to its members, recognizing them for their extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields. Fewer than 0.1% of members each year receive this distinction.