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About the PI
About the PI
Dr. Xuezhi Ma, a Senior Scientist, Group Leader, and Deputy Head of Department at the A*STAR Quantum Innovation Center (Q. InC) and the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore. He also concurrently serves as Person in Charge (Director) of A*STAR-HTX Quantum Sensing Joint-lab (~S$20M).
Dr. Xuezhi Ma, a Senior Scientist, Group Leader, and Deputy Head of Department at the A*STAR Quantum Innovation Center (Q. InC) and the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore. He also concurrently serves as Person in Charge (Director) of A*STAR-HTX Quantum Sensing Joint-lab (~S$20M).
He received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2019 from the University of California, Riverside, USA. Before I joined the current affiliation, I was a postdoc researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University from November 2019 to November 2021.
He received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2019 from the University of California, Riverside, USA. Before I joined the current affiliation, I was a postdoc researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University from November 2019 to November 2021.
My background is in Quantum Materials and Physics and spans topics on quantum optics, optical spectroscopy, nano-photonics, ultrafast optics, nonlinear optics, nanofabrication, and artificial intelligence. I am currently focusing on several research topics, including the study of van der Waals quantum materials, on-chip tunable meta-devices for quantum computing and information, and reconfigurable ferroelectrical 2D materials for entangled light sources.
My background is in Quantum Materials and Physics and spans topics on quantum optics, optical spectroscopy, nano-photonics, ultrafast optics, nonlinear optics, nanofabrication, and artificial intelligence. I am currently focusing on several research topics, including the study of van der Waals quantum materials, on-chip tunable meta-devices for quantum computing and information, and reconfigurable ferroelectrical 2D materials for entangled light sources.
Current Funding
Current Funding
1. PI: A*STAR-HTX Quantum Sensing Joint Lab (~S$4M)
2. PI (Singapore Side): 2025 Quantum Synergy: A scalable Swedish-Singaporean Quantum Innovation Program
3. Co-PI: 2025 Singapore Research Attachment Programme (SRAP)
4. Collaborator: 2024 Singapore National 2023 MTC YOUNG INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH GRANT (YIRG)
5. PI: Singapore National 2023 MTC YOUNG INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH GRANT (YIRG)
6. PI: 2022 A*STAR Career Development Fund (CDF)
Featured Works
Featured Works
News
News
10/ 2025
Excited to see my first last authored paper got accpected by Chemical Society Review. Congratulations!
06/ 2025
Our international collaborative funding with RISE, Sweden, entitled "Fiber-based Quantum Dot Sensing (FBQDS)," was awarded under Quantum Synergy: A scalable Swedish-Singaporean Quantum Innovation Program. I will be the PI on the Singapore side. Congratulations team!
05/2025
Our proposal titled “Advanced Quantum Light Sources for Quantum Applications” has been awarded under the Singapore Research Attachment Programme (SRAP) for the FY25 Pilot Cycle. The total budget is S$417,870 for supporting 4 PhD students. Congratulations team! Excited to have the close collaboration with POSTECH Quantum Graduate School!
04/2025
I was promoted as Senior Scientist, effective from 1st April. 2025.
03/2025
I was appointed Deputy Head of Department (Quantum Sensing & Metrology), effective from 14th March. 2025.
02/2025
My co-corresponding authored paper entitled Wearable Devices for Digital Information Interaction to Assist Blind and Low-vision People was just accepted by Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering. Congratulations and many thanks, Prof. Yuan Ma. See https://www.nature.com/articles/s44287-025-00170-w
11/2024
My corresponding authored paper entitled Vertically Stacked Short Channel PtSe2/Ultrathin-Silicon Heterojunction for Fast-Speed UV Photodetection Application is published on Advanced Optical Materials. Congratulations!
08/ 2024
I was appointed as Section Editor for the journal Comm&Optics Connect. You are welcome to submit or review your high-end results.
07/ 2024
Our collaboration paper, published on Device, was featured by the A*STAR Quantum Innovation Center (Q INC).
05/ 2024
I received YIRG grant and was featured by A*STAR Quantum Innovation Center (Q INC).
01/ 2024
I won the highly competitive Singapore National 2023 MTC YOUNG INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH GRANT (YIRG) (S＄325,000, after cutting 30% overhead) for three years. Congratulations！
05/2023
My first corresponding authored paper entitled As-grown Miniaturized True Zero-order Waveplates Based on Low-dimensional Ferrocene Crystals is published on Advanced Materials, congratulations!
10/2022
My first-authored work entitled Coherent Momentum Control of Forbidden Excitons was accepted by Nature Communications, congratulations!
09/2022
I, Prof. Yuan Ma, and Prof. Qiushi Liu are Guest Editor for Symmetry (IF = 2.94) on a special issue on: "Symmetry and Asymmetry in Nano-Optics, Nano-Photonics, and Optomechanics: Theory, Applications, and Reviews". We would like to invite professors and researchers to submit Reviews and research articles.
08/2022
My co-first-authored work entitled Strategical Deep Learning for Photonic Bound States in the Continuum is published in Laser & Photonics Reviews.
07/ 2022
I received my first individual funding: 2022 A*STAR Career Development Fund (CDF) (S＄175,700, after cutting 30% overhead) for two years. Congratulations！
11/2021
I joined IMRE, A* STAR, Singapore as a Scientist.
11/2021
Our recent advance in nano-UV-VIS is published in Nature Communication.
Selected as 2021 Top 25 Physics Articles, and 2021 Top Chemistry and Materials Sciences Articles
Featured by Wikipedia, UC, Riverside, Phys.org, EurekAlert!, Nanowerk, True Viral News, Scitech Daily, Azonano, Azooptics, Engineering and Technology, Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine, Yahoo News, Futura-Science, Interesting Engineering, Popmech, Galileu, ScienMag, Mirage News, Science Springs, Interesting Engineering, Optics.org, Free, and many more.
10/2019
I graduated and received my Ph.D. degree. Moved to Texas and started my new position at Texas A&M University.
07/2019
Our NSOM-TERS paper was published in Nature Photonics.
Featured by Phy.org, EurekAlerk!, Nanowerk, Science Daily, Chem Europe, Physicsworld, Wikipedia page1, Wikipedia page 2, etc.
01/2019
My new type of remote-excitation Tip-enhanced Raman probe work was published in Nano Letters.
03/2018
I presented our work at the MRS March conference.
11/2017
My capillary transfer paper was listed as the top 5 downloaded (in the past 30 days) in Nano Letters.
10/2017
My paper on capillary transfer was accepted by Nano Letters.
Research Interests
Research Interests
Phonon-polaritons
Phonon-polaritons
Phonon-polaritons in anisotropic van der Waals materials
CMOS compatible all-optical chips for quantum information and quantum computing
CMOS compatible all-optical chips for quantum information and quantum computing
Room temperature on-chip long coherent time nano-light-source.
Topological photonic chips, photonic crystal
On chip Bound states in the continuum (BICs)
Artificial intelligence for optical design
Artificial intelligence for optical design
Machine learning for all-optical chips design
Machine learning for ultra-high quality factor resonance design
Two-dimensional Materials
Two-dimensional Materials
Two-dimensional materials heterostructure device fabrication
Integration of two-dimensional materials with photonic chips
Excitons, exciton-polaritons, phonon-polaritons
Semiconductor Manufacturing
Semiconductor Manufacturing
Germanium FinFETs fabrication and characterization
Two-dimensional materials optoelectronic devices Nano- and micro-fabrication
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