Ma Weiming

Ma Weiming (; born 6 April 1960) is a Chinese electrical engineer. He is a professor of the PLA Naval University of Engineering. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and holds the military rank of rear admiral. He led the development of the electromagnetic catapult system for the Type 003 aircraft carrier and the development of electromagnetic railguns. In 2017, he was awarded the August 1 Medal, the highest honor of the People's Liberation Army.

Biography Ma was born in April 1960 in Yangzhong, Jiangsu, China. He graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of PLA Naval University of Engineering in Wuhan with a BS degree in 1982 and an MS degree in 1987. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University in 1996.

Ma is Professor and Director of the Institute of Power Electronic Technique Application at the Naval University of Engineering. Considered a top naval engineer in China, he holds the military rank of rear admiral. Ma is also credited for silencing noise of the PLA Navy's submarine's propulsion system thus making them less detectable on sonar.

Since the late 1980s, Ma has advised and guided more than 400 masters and doctoral students. Two of them, Xiao Fei and Wang Dong, were awarded rare peacetime First-Class Merit Awards by the PLA for their research.

Honors Two State Technological Invention Awards (Third Class) State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class), 2000 Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize in Technological Sciences, 2015 Order of August First, 2017