H.-S. Philip Wong
H.-S. Philip Wong is the Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell professor in the School of Engineering, He is professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is a Chinese-American electrical engineer whose career centers on nanotechnology, microelectronics, and semiconductor technology.
Biography
H.-S. Philip Wong completed his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong in 1982. He received his MS in Electrical Engineering from State University of New York, Stony Brook, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University, under the tutelage of Professor Marvin H. White.After completing his doctoral degree, he joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, New York, in 1988. At IBM, he held various positions from Research Staff Member to Senior Manager. He joined Stanford University as Professor of Electrical Engineering in September 2004.
In 2019, he received the IEEE Electron Devices Society J.J. Ebers Award, the Society’s highest honor to recognize outstanding technical contributions to the field of electron devices that have made a lasting impact.
In 2018, he took a leave of absence from Stanford to serve as Vice President of Corporate Research at TSMC, the largest semiconductor foundry in the world.
Other academic appointments
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Visiting Chair Professor of Nanoelectronics
- Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China: Honorary Professor
- Peking University, Beijing, China: Visiting Professor
- IMEP-LAHC, Grenoble, France: Chair of Excellence
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong: Visiting Professor
Awards and honors
- 2012, Honorary Doctorate Degree, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
- 2001, Fellow, IEEE
- 2019, IEEE Electron Devices Society, J. J. Ebers Award
Published
- H.-S. P. Wong and D. Akinwande, “Carbon Nanotube and Graphene Device Physics,” Cambridge University Press, 2011. .