Prof. Xiangyi "X" Meng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He earned his B.S. in microelectronics from Peking University and completed his Ph.D. in physics at Boston University (advised by Prof. Eugene Stanley). Prior to his role at RPI, he worked with Prof. Albert-László Barabási as a Postdoc at Northeastern University's Center for Complex Network Research, and with Prof. István Kovács as a Research Associate at Northwestern University.

Prof. Meng's research spans several areas of physics and network science, including quantum networks and quantum information, open quantum field theories, science of science, computational social science, physical and biological networks, scale-free network theories, information diffusion, tensor networks, and recurrent neural networks. He also applies interdisciplinary network science approaches to explore brains and econophysics.

Prof. Meng has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PNAS, PNAS Nexus, Science Advances, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, and Physical Review D. Prof. Meng is an affiliated faculty member with the NITMB in Chicago and a principal investigator with the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA). His research is funded by multiple agencies, including the DOE, IBM, and the Templeton Foundation.