Guo-Xing Miao

Guo-Xing Miao is the director of Nanotechnology Engineering (NE) and director of Graduate Studies for the Quantum Information (QI) program at the University of Waterloo. He has served as a professor at both the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since July 2025. Dr. Miao first joined IQC in May 2011 as a research assistant professor, was appointed assistant professor in 2012 and advanced to associate professor in July 2018.

Prior to joining IQC, he received his PhD from Brown University in 2006 and then went on to roles as a postdoctoral associate and research scientist at the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Professional activities

• Ontario Early Researcher Awards
• Member, Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)
• Senior member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Member, American Physical Society (APS)
• Member, American Chemical Society (ACS)
• Member, Materials Research Society (MRS)

Degrees

• PhD 2006  Brown University, Providence USA
• MSc 2003  Brown University, Providence USA
• BSc 1999  Shandong University, Jinan China

Research expertise

• Spiontronics (integrating iontronics with spintronics)
• Neural networks and compute in memory (novel memristors and CMOS integration)
• Topologically protected low-dimensional spin system (doped Bi/Se/Te system)
• Spin memory and logic devices (magnetoresistance and multiferroics based)

Major positions