Jiangtao XuProfessor, Ph.D. SupervisorPresidential Chair Professor, Tianjin UniversityRecipient of the National High-Level Talent Program

Director, ASIC Design Center, Tianjin UniversityDirector, Tianjin Engineering Center of Integrated Circuits and Computing SystemsPresident, Tianjin Integrated Circuit Industry AssociationSenior Member, Chinese Optical Engineering SocietyMember, Chinese Institute of ElectronicsMember, Visual Sensing Committee, China Society of Image and GraphicsMember, Computer Engineering and Technology Committee, China Computer Federation

Dr. Xu is engaged in teaching and research in integrated circuit design. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses including:

• Sensor System Design，Mixed-Signal Design，Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits，MOS VLSI Analysis and Design，Frontiers of Engineering and Technology in Microelectronics

His research focuses on image sensor chips and mixed-signal integrated circuits.He has led more than 30 research projects, including:

• National Science and Technology Major Project，National Key Research and Development Program，Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China，Tianjin Major Artificial Intelligence Project，Industrial cooperation projects

He has achieved breakthroughs in key technologies for:

• Biomimetic intelligent vision sensing chips，Time-of-Flight (ToF) 3D imaging chips，Low-light high-dynamic-range imaging chips，Hundred-megapixel large-format imaging chips，Single-photon imaging chips，More than 10 high-end image sensor chips have been successfully developed. As first author or corresponding author, he has published over 100 academic papers in high-level SCI journals such as IEEE JSSC, TCASI, TED, and Science China.He holds more than 80 authorized invention patents as the first inventor.He is the chief editor of the monograph Analysis and Design of Image Sensor Chips and participated in formulating the national standard Test Methods for Integrated Circuit CMOS Image Sensors.

He has supervised more than 100 master’s and doctoral students.

• He supervised doctoral student Xiaopei Shi, whose project A Biomimetic Vision Intelligent CMOS Image Sensor with Sensing-Computing Integration won the National Gold Award in the China International College Students’ Innovation Competition (2023). He supervised doctoral student Quanmin Chen, whose project High-Definition Depth Vision Perception Chip and System Based on Optical Time-of-Flight won the National Gold Award in the China International College Students’ Innovation Competition (2024).

Many research achievements have been industrialized.

Awards & Honors (Leading / First Author)

• Second Prize of National Teaching Achievement Award (Graduate Education), 2022 (1st)

• Special Prize of Tianjin Teaching Achievement Award (Graduate Education), 2022 (1st)

• 22nd China Patent Excellence Award (1st)

• Tianjin Gold Patent Award, 2019 (1st)

• First Prize of Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award, 2022 (1st)，

• First Prize of Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award, 2018 (1st)

Personal Honors

• Leader of National High-Level Talent Program

• Tianjin Young and Middle-Aged Scientific and Technological Innovation Leader

• 15th Tianjin Youth Science and Technology Award

• Outstanding Supervisor for Master’s Theses, Chinese Institute of Electronics

• Outstanding Supervisor for Master’s Theses, Tianjin

• 9th “Model Teacher for Educating People”, Tianjin University

• “My Favorite Supervisor” for Graduate Students, Tianjin University