Dong Ming
Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University
Builder The claim is about what the hardware does, and the philosophy is left open
Dong Ming is Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Dean of the Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine at Tianjin University, where he directs research on brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), neural rehabilitation, quantitative electroencephalography, and clinical neuromonitoring.
As senior author of the November 2026 Reviews in the Neurosciences scientometric synthesis (doi:10.1515/revneuro-2026-0217) mapping three decades of consciousness research in neuroscience, co-authored with Qiangfan Meng, Steven Laureys, Minpeng Xu, and colleagues, Ming led the quantitative synthesis of 22,836 neuroscience publications and 639,975 cited references (from 24,934 retrieved Web of Science records spanning 1998 to 2025). The work charts the geographic distribution of consciousness neuroscience across North America, Europe, and East Asia and identifies the structural divide between clinical bedside diagnostics and theoretical models of interoceptive selfhood.
Ming is classified as a Builder on this site for his neural-engineering instrumentation and scientometric mapping of the discipline.
Known for. Brain-computer interfaces, neural engineering, scientometric synthesis of three decades of consciousness research
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