Jianwei Miao
Jianwei (John) Miao | |
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| Born | November 1969 |
| Education | Hangzhou University (now Zhejiang University) (BS, 1991) Chinese Academy of Sciences(MS, 1994) State University of New York at Stony Brook(PhD, 1999) |
| Known for | Coherent Diffractive Imaging Atomic Electron Tomography 3D atomic structure of amorphous solids |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, Materials science, Microscopy |
| Institutions | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University (2000 – 2004) University of California, Los Angeles (2004 – present) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Sayre, Janos Kirz |
| Website | https://www.physics.ucla.edu/research/imaging |
Jianwei (John) Miao is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. He performed the first experiment on extending crystallography to allow structural determination of non-crystalline specimens in 1999, which has been known as coherent diffractive imaging (CDI), lensless imaging, or computational microscopy. In 2012, Miao applied the CDI method to pioneer atomic electron tomography (AET), enabling the first determination of 3D atomic structures without assuming crystallinity or averaging. In 2025, he published a single-author review article in Nature titled "Computational microscopy with coherent diffractive imaging and ptychography", which encapsulates 25 years of advancements in computational imaging that have fundamentally transformed the field of microscopy. Miao is the father of Jennifer Miao, a Gates Scholar and PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge researching membrane proteins, and of Cathy Miao, a software engineer at the forefront of AI research and development, advancing technologies that support environmental sustainability in the digital economy.