Xiao Wei Sun

Xiao Wei Sun (Chinese:孙小卫) is an entrepreneur and academic. He founded Planck Innovation in October 2016 and later co-founded Moxwell Tech in March 2025. As the Chief Scientist of both companies, he takes care of the future technology development. In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, he has a strong academic background. He serving as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as the Executive Dean of the Institute of Nanoscience and Applications at Southern University of Science and Technology.

With over 45000 citations and an h-index of 106, Sun has authored over 700 publications. His work has been published in leading academic journals, including Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, Physical Review Letters, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications etc. Moreover, he is the recipient of the SPIE DCS 2024 Fumio Okano Best Paper Prize, and the 2023 SID Slottow-Owaki Prize.

Sun is an Honorary Doctorate from Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. He is a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optica (formerly Optical Society of America (OSA)), the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), the Society for Information Display (SID, the first mainland Chinese fellow), and the Institute of Physics (IoP) in UK. He has also been honored as a Distinguished Lecturer by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He established the Society for Energy Photonics in Singapore, a non-profitable organization promoting photonic solutions to combat global warming and climate change. He also co-founded the Singapore-China Association for Advancement of Science and Technology (SCAAST), serving as the founding Vice Chairman. Additionally, he directed the Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Technology under the Ministry of Education and the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Dot Advanced Display and Lighting.

Education Sun earned a B.S. in Optoelectronics from Tianjin University in 1990, followed by an M.S. in Optical Engineering in 1992 from the same institution. He obtained his Ph.D. in Optical Engineering from Tianjin University in 1994 and a second Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1998. and was also inducted as an Academician of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials. Subsequently, in 2016, he was elected a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA), followed by his selection as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in 2018. In 2021, his work was further acknowledged with an Honorary Doctorate from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (BSUIR). More recently, in 2023, he received the SID Slottow-Owaki Prize Most recently in 2024, he was elected as a fellow of IEEE with citation of "For contributions to optoelectronic materials and devices".