Jackie Y. Ying is an award-winning nanotechnologist born in Taipei and raised in Singapore and New York. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature, with a theme in the synthesis of advanced nanostructured materials for biomaterial and catalytic applications.

She founded the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) in 2003 and served as its executive director, which has published over 1,330 papers and spun off 13 startup companies. before going on to become an A*STAR Senior Fellow and Director of NanoBio Lab from 2018 to 2023.

Ying has broken many records in her storied career. She became the youngest full professor in the chemical engineering faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the age of 35 in 2001, and the youngest member of the German National Academy of Sciences in 2005. She has won a litany of awards for her research, and is commonly named as one of the most influential women in Singapore by publications such as Tatler, Prestige and Her World.

Currently an advisor of the Biomedical Research Council of A*STAR, Ying also has 200 primary patents granted or pending, 42 of which have been licensed to multinational and startup companies. She serves as an editor, in advisory, honorary, associate and regional capacities, for scientific journals the likes of Materials Today, Current Bionanotechnology and Journal of Experimental Nanoscience. She sits on the board of no less than six research institutes, including the Scientific Advisory Board of NUS Nanomedicine Translational Research Program and the Academic Advisory Committee of Academia Sinica (Taiwan) Research Center for Applied Sciences.