Congratulate to Benquan Wang! Wining the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad

Congratulate to Benquan Wang! Wining the Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship! The top postdoc research fellowship in NTU Singapore.

Congratulate to our FYP student Xie Honglin, who won the NTU's Most Prestigious Scholarship - Nanyang President's Graduate Scholarship and continue research in our group as PhD candidate.

Our work of “Electromagnetic meta-cannon emitting hybrid toroidal pulses” [Sci. Adv. 11, eads4797 (2025)] was selected for Optica OPN's "Optics 30 in 2025" — one of 30 breakthroughs in optics and photonics worldwide.

Each December, Optics & Photonics News (the flagship magazine of Optica) reviews peer-reviewed optics research from the past year. The editorial panel selected only 30 works around the world that "communicated breakthroughs of particular interest to the broad optics community." The recognition places this work among the year's most significant advances in the field.

The work was also featured as the journal cover art [link] and highlighted on the contents page [link]. 

“Electromagnetic meta-cannon emits hybrid toroidal pulse with richtopologies”

—— Optics & Photonics News, Optica

Congratulations to Prof Yijie Shen on a remarkable year of international recognition in optics and photonics.

Prof Shen was named a 2025 Rising Stars of Light Final Winner by Light: Science & Applications (Nature Publishing Group), one of the field’s most prestigious global honours for emerging leaders in photonics.

At PIERS 2025, he also received both the Young Scientist Award and the Best Session Award for his session Topologically Structured Light and Matter, underscoring his contributions and leadership in structured and topological light research. 

—— NTU SPMS [Interview]

Rising Stars of Light, initiated by Light: Science & Applications, Springer Nature, is a worldwide campaign for the most shining young scientists in optics related topics. Since 2021, Rising Stars of Light was highlighted as a featured event by UNESCO’s International Day of Light. 

2025 Rising Stars of Light Faculty Track - Winner Awards:

• Prof. Aaswath Raman from UCLA 

• Prof. Yijie Shen from Nanyang Technological University 

• Prof. Chengying Bao from Tsinghua University 

—— Springer Nature

A huge congratulations to our undergraduate students for their outstanding performance at the NTU SPMS Odyssey Research Symposium 2025!

Congrats Liau Kang Xuan won the Best Poster Award

Congrats Javier Ruiyuan Sin won the 1st Runner-Up Presentation Award

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Yijie Shen on his breakthrough research published in Nature!

The paper explores the generation of topological water waves and their ability to manipulate particles, opening new doors for hydrodynamics and microfluidics. Dive into the fascinating world of structured waves and their applications here: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08384-y

—— NTU SPMS

As part of our 25th Anniversary celebrations, the Journal of Optics is pleased to present the Rising Stars in Optics initiative. This programme has been designed to honour outstanding early-career researchers who are making significant contributions in optics. 

—— IOP