DR. WONG CHING PING

Biography

Professor Ching Ping Wong is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States, a foreign academician member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a founding member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences.

Professor Wong is currently Regents’ Professor and the Charles Smithgall Institute Endowed Chair in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT). He was also the Dean of Engineering and the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Professor Wong received his PhD degree from the Pennsylvania State University in 1975. After his doctoral study, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship under Nobel laureate Professor Henry Taube at Stanford University in 1977. He joined AT&T Bell Laboratories and served as a researcher, chief scientist, and distinguished scientist successively.

Professor Wong was awarded a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1992 and joined the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1995. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States in 2000 and returned to Hong Kong in 2010 to serve as the dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was elected a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2013 and a founding member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Professor Wong has long been engaged in research on electronic packaging. He has published widely with over 1000 technical papers in the field of packaging materials and holds over 60 US patents. He has also authored, coauthors and edited 12 books on semiconductor packaging areas. He was awarded the IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Award which is the highest honor in the field of electronic packaging.