Jinwei Zeng is currently an Associate Professor in Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Optoelectronics Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2007, and PhD degree in Electric Engineering from the State University of New York at buffalo in 2014. After that he worked as Postdoc Scholar in Missouri University of Science and Technology from 2015-2016, and in University of California Irvine from 2016-2018. He joined Huazhong University of Science and Technology as a faculty member from 2019 till present.

His research interest is mainly in the sciences and applications of Nano-photonics, including metamaterials/metasurfaces, structured light, photo-induced force microscopy, optical magnetism etc.