Ni Guangjian, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor; Director of Hospital Administration Office; Executive Deputy Director of Haihe Laboratory for Brain-Computer Interaction and Human-Machine Integration; Deputy Director of Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Medical Engineering, Ministry of Education. Chief Scientist of National Key R&D Program, Tianjin Overseas High-Level Talent, Tier 1 Recipient of the First Batch of Tianjin Young Scientific and Technological Talents (only 15 recipients across the city). He holds dual doctoral degrees from Tianjin University and the University of Southampton, UK. From 2012 to 2017, he worked as Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southampton.

He currently serves as a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the Tianjin Center, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei National Technology Innovation Center; Director of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering, Deputy Chairperson and Secretary-General of its Youth Working Committee; Standing Committee Member of the Auditory, Language and Communication Research Branch of the Biophysical Society of China; Deputy Secretary-General of the Basic Research Expert Committee, Expert Steering Committee of the China Hearing Medicine Development Foundation; Deputy Chairperson of the Speech Rehabilitation Special Committee, Tianjin Rehabilitation Medicine Association, among other appointments.

His main research areas include auditory brain-computer interfaces, neural engineering and intelligent medicine. In recent years, he has presided over 33 research projects, including the National Key R&D Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, key and major applied research projects, and industry-commissioned horizontal projects. He has published more than 80 high-quality journal and conference papers in top journals of auditory science and neural engineering such as IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Human Brain Mapping, GeroScience, Hearing Research, and Cerebral Cortex.

He has been granted multiple national invention patents and US patents. His honours include the First Prize and Second Prize of Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award, two Second Prizes of the National Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award, EU Marie Curie Fellowship, The Spoendlin Award, and The Sir James Lighthill Award. The students under his supervision have won numerous awards including the First Prize of the National Intelligent Medicine Innovation and Creativity Competition and the First Prize of the 8th Biomedical Engineering Innovation Design Competition.