The 2025 list of “Highly Cited Researchers” was released on November 12, 2025. We are proud to announce that five Principal Investigators from the NUS Guangzhou Research Translation and Innovation Institute have been named to this prestigious list: Professor Shuzhi Sam GE, Professor John Wang, Professor Qiu ChengWei, Professor Zhang Yang, and Assistant Professor Hou Yi.

Concurrently, the National University of Singapore has demonstrated its exceptional research strength, with a total of 37 faculty members recognized as 2025 Highly Cited Researchers.

The listed scientists have all published multiple highly-cited papers over the past 11 years, with their citation frequencies placing them in the top 1% of their respective fields in the Web of Science™.

Profiles of the Honoured Professors

Professor Shuzhi Sam GE

Fellow of Academy of Engineering, Singapore

Tenured Professor of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore

Director of Social Robotics Laboratory, Interactive Digital Media Institute, NUS

Fellow of IEEE and IFAC

Director of NUS Guangzhou Research Translation and Innovation Institute

Professor Shuzhi Sam GE is an internationally renowned expert in robotics and intelligent control. He has long been dedicated to intelligent systems and low-altitude cross-domain platforms. Since 2016, he has been named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for 10 consecutive years.

Professor John Wang

Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore

Fellow of Singapore National Academy of Science

Academician of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM)

Tenured Professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore

Director of NUS (Chongqing) Research Institute

Professor John Wang has been named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for six consecutive years since 2020. His research focuses on new-generation functional materials, particularly materials for energy storage and conversion, and nanomaterials for environmental and healthcare applications.

Professor QIU Cheng Wei

Fellow of Academy of Engineering, Singapore

Fellow of ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology

Fellow of American Physical Society

Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, US

Provost’s Chair Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore

Professor Cheng-Wei Qiu is an internationally leading scholar in nanophotonics, metamaterials and structured light field manipulation. His extensive research portfolio spans multiple frontier areas including metasurface optics, nanoscale light field control, topological photonics and quantum optics, where he has published groundbreaking work as corresponding author in Science, Nature and Physical Review Letters.

Professor ZHANG Yang

Professor of Computer Science and Biological Chemistry, National University of Singapore

Senior Principal Investigator, Singapore Cancer Science Institute

Recipient, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship

Recipient, NSF CAREER Award

Professor Yang Zhang specializes in AI-driven prediction of protein and RNA structures and de novo drug discovery. His team's flagship algorithm, I-TASSER, has won the prestigious CASP competition nine consecutive times, establishing a transformative paradigm in computational structural biology.

Assistant Professor HOU Yi

Presidential Young Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore

Head of the Perovskite-based Multijunction Solar Cell Group, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS)

Recognized as one of the Innovators Under 35 (Asia Pacific) by MIT Technology Review

Recipient of the IUMRS-ICEM 2024 Young Scientist Award

Assistant Professor Hou Yi’s research primarily focuses on the materials, assembly, and device innovation of perovskite-based tandem solar cells. He has repeatedly set new world records for solar cell efficiency, making significant contributions to the advancement of materials science.

2025 Highly Cited Researchers List

The “Highly Cited Researchers” list is released annually, with its data analysis based on an 11-year rolling period. It is compiled through a rigorous evaluation and selection process by bibliometric experts and data scientists from the Clarivate Institute for Scientific Information™ (ISI). This selection leverages citation data from the Web of Science Core Collection and qualitative analysis. The recognized researchers have all published multiple highly cited papers over the past 11 years, whose citation ranks place them in the top 1% within their respective fields in the Web of Science™. For the 2025 list, a total of 6,868 researchers (representing 7,131 instances) from over 1,300 institutions across 60 countries and regions were selected.