Discover the Invisible World That’s Shaping Your Future

What if the future of medicine, energy, AI, electronics, and computing all depend on things too small to see or handle? Imagine a technology reaching the infinitesimal and transforming the world from the ground level up – that’s nanotechnology engineering—and it’s driving some of the biggest breakthroughs of our time.

Professor Guo-Xing Miao, Director of the Nanotechnology Engineering Program at the University of Waterloo, will reveal how working at the nanoscale leads to innovations like nm transistor processes, ultra fast electronics, precision drug delivery, green energy, and advances in AI and quantum computing. Rooted in chemistry, physics, biology, and materials science, nanotechnology engineering connects the quantum world with real technologies that shape everyday life.

If you’re curious about technologies, excited by cutting-edge discoveries, or eager to help solve global challenges, this talk will show you how the smallest technologies are shaping the future.

Dr. Guo-Xing Miao

Dr. Guo-Xing Miao is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, member of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), Director of Nanotechnology Engineering (NE), and Director of Quantum Information (QI) Graduate program at the University of Waterloo.

Professor Miao’s research group concentrates on a specific quantum property of electrons—their spin degrees of freedom. Spin-based information can be stored, transmitted, and manipulated across both classical and quantum regimes. In nanoelectronic systems, the interplay between spins and ions – central to spin-iontronics – offers a powerful platform for precise spin control and dynamic monitoring.