Jackie Yi-Ru Ying (born 1966) is a Taiwanese-born American nanotechnology scientist based in Singapore.
[6][7] Ying became a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1992.
[6] Ying returned to Singapore in 2003 to serve as the first executive director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, a division of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).
In 2005, Ying was the youngest member inducted into the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
[9] Since then, Ying has joined the Department of Bioengineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) as a professor.
She was awarded the "Top Scientific Achievement" award for "her great scientific and technological contributions and achievements to the synthesis of well-designed advanced nanostructured materials and systems, nanostructured biomaterials and miniaturised biosystems for various interesting applications".