Jiang returns to China to advance information technology by creating smaller, faster and more energy-efficient computer chips
3-MIN READ3-MINShi HuangPublished: 6:00pm, 7 Mar 2026Most academics take eight to 10 years after earning a PhD to become doctoral supervisors. But semiconductor scientist Jiang Jianfeng has done it in just 18 months.
Jiang’s research focuses on two-dimensional indium selenide (InSe). This material challenges the existing “silicon-based hegemony” and could help China leap ahead in the chip sector.
“From Shandong University to Peking University and then to MIT – it has been nine years in a flash.”
Jiang earned his master’s from Shandong University in 2020, receiving its President’s Award, and his PhD from Peking University in 2024, where he was awarded its highest honour – the May Fourth Medal.
