Xing-Wang Deng (Chinese: 邓兴旺) is a plant biologist. His study focus on two areas, one is the genetic and biochemical mechanism for light regulated seedling development in Arabidopsis, another is using genome-wide association study to understand genome basis of the plant heterosis.^[1] He was elected a fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2012^[2] and a member of National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2013.^[1]