Teresa Meng


Teresa Huai-Ying Meng is a Taiwanese-American academician and entrepreneur. She is the Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emerita, at Stanford University, and founder of Atheros Communications, a wireless semiconductor company acquired by Qualcomm, Inc.
In 2007, Meng was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for pioneering the development of distributed wireless network technology.
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Early life and education

Meng, born and raised in Taiwan, graduated from the National Taiwan University with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 and 1985, respectively. She is the daughter of Shih-Ko Meng, an industrial engineer by training, who foresaw the importance of IC technology and co-founded the first semiconductor manufacturing company in Taiwan in the 1970s. Meng's mother was an accountant.

Career

She joined the Stanford faculty in 1988. Her research activities in the first 10 years focused on low-power circuit and system design, video signal processing, and wireless communications. In 1998, Prof. Meng took leave from Stanford and founded Atheros Communications, Inc., which developed semiconductor system solutions for wireless network communications products.
After returning to Stanford in 2000, Meng continued her teaching and research, and turned her research interest to applying signal processing and IC design to bio-medical engineering. She collaborated with Prof. Krishna Shenoy on neural signal processing and neural prosthetic systems. She also directed a research group exploring wireless power transfer and implantable bio-medical devices.
Prof. Meng retired from Stanford in 2013. She serves on the boards of Ambarella and the Alliance Cultural Foundation International and is Advisor to Atmosic Technologies.
In 2019, Meng was the recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell medal. This marked the first time a female was the recipient of the award. Meng was awarded this due to her contributions and leadership in the development of wireless semiconductor technology.

Atheros Communications

In 1998, Meng took leave from her post at Stanford University to found Atheros Communications, a company which focused on technology for wireless communications. A provider of Wi-Fi technologies and solutions, Atheros went public in 2004. In 2006, Atheros partnered with mobile CDMA leader, Qualcomm, to create integrated cellular and Wi-Fi solutions, with initial application in the smartphone. The partnership culminated in the Qualcomm acquisition of Atheros in 2011. In her role as founder of Atheros, Meng was named one of Top 10 entrepreneurs of the Year by Red Herring, and received the 20/20 Vision Award, CIO Magazine, and Innovator of the Year, MIT Sloan Business School.
Meng has been credited by the IEEE for her CMOS-integrated radio-frequency innovations, which led to the availability of inexpensive wireless data communications that fueled the wireless revolution by enabling low-cost, high-performance LANs.

Boards, advisory committees, professional organizations

Selected articles

; Signal Processing and Wireless Communications:
  • Teresa H. Meng and David G. Messerschmitt, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. ASSP-34, No. 4, pp. 455–470, April 1987.
  • Teresa H. Meng, Benjamin M. Gordon, Ely K. Tsern and Andy C. Hung, invited paper, Proceedings of IEEE, Vol. 83, No. 4, pp. 659–680, April 1995.
  • Peter J. Black and Teresa H. Meng, IEEE Journal of Solid-States Circuits, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 797–805, June 1997.
  • Teresa H. Meng, invited paper, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 130–137, June 1998.
  • Won Namgoong, Sydney Reader and Teresa H. Meng, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 856–864, June 2000.
  • Jeffrey G. Andrews and Teresa H. Meng, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 811–822, May 2004.
  • Alok Aggarwal and Teresa H. Meng, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 54, No. 8, pp. 3099–3110, August 2006.
  • Volkan Rodoplu and Teresa H. Meng, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 857–865, March 2007.
; Atheros Network and SoC Designs:
  • Bill McFarland, Greg Chesson, Carl Temme, Teresa H. Meng, invited paper, IEEE Communications Magazine, pp. 84–92, November 2002.
  • Teresa H. Meng, Bill McFarland, David Su, John Thomson, invited paper, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 41, No. 8, pp. 160–168, August 2003.
  • Srenik Mehta, D. Weber, M. Terrovitis, K. Onodera, M. Mack, B. Kaczynki, H. Samavati, S. Jen, W. Si, M. Lee, K. Singh, S. Mendis, P. Husted, N. Zhang, B. McFarland, D. Su, T. Meng, and B. Wooley,, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 40, No. 12, pp. 2483–2491, December 2005.
; Neural Signal Processing:
  • Caleb Kemere, Krishna Shenoy and Teresa H. Meng, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 51, No. 6, pp. 925–932, June 2004.
  • Gopal Santhanam, Michael D. Linderman, Vikash Gilja, Afsheen Afshar, Stephen Ryu, Teresa H. Meng, Krishna V. Shenoy, Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 54, No. 11, pp. 2037–2050, November 2007.
  • Michael D. Linderman. Caleb T. Kemere, Stephen O'Driscoll, Gopal Santhanam, Vikash Gilja, Byron M. Yu, Afsheen Afshar, Stephen I. Ryu, Teresa H. Meng, Krishna V. Shenoy, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 18–28, January 2008.
  • Henrique Miranda, Vikash Gilja, Cindy Chestek, Krishna Shenoy, Teresa H. Meng,, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 181–191, June 2010.
  • Hua Gao, Ross Walker, Teresa Meng, and Boris Murmann,, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2012.
; Wireless Power Transfer:
; Implantable Biomedical Devices: