Jackie Ying

Chief Innovation and Research Officer

Professor Jackie Y. Ying is a scientist working at the intersection of nanotechnology, biomedical engineering and translational medicine, and serves as Chief Research and Innovation Officer at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh. She received her B.E. summa cum laude in chemical engineering from The Cooper Union in 1987 and her Ph.D. in the same field from Princeton University in 1991, followed by post-doctoral research on nanocrystalline materials in Germany. She joined the MIT chemical engineering faculty in 1992 and became its youngest full professor at the age of 35 in 2001. She led A*STAR's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore from 2003 to 2018 and then the NanoBio Lab until 2023. She has published over 410 articles with more than 54,000 citations, holds over 200 patents granted or pending, and has given more than 570 invited lectures. Her honours include the Mustafa Prize for Top Scientific Achievement (2015), the King Faisal Prize in Science (2023), and election to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.