Ma Tso-Ping, Raymond J.

Wean Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering
Yale University

Ma Tso-Ping is Raymond J. Wean Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at Yale University, where he has been a faculty member since 1977. His long involvement with Yale University began in 1969, when he enrolled in Yale as a graduate student, and subsequently obtained a Ph.D. degree in Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1974. Except for a 3-year (1974-1977) stint at IBM, he has devoted his entire professional life to Yale University, and has served as Faculty Fellow of Yale’s Trumbull College (one of the 12 residential colleges) since 1978. He served as Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale between 1991 and 1995, and also between 2001 and 2007. He is a Co-Director of Yale Center for Microelectronics, and a Co-Director of the Yale-Peking Joint Center for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in USA, a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), an Academician of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, and a Life Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE).

He has received an honorary Doctor’s Degree from the National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan, the 2008 Connecticut Medal of Technology, the 2006 SIA (Semiconductor Industry Association) University Researcher Award, the 2005 IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award, a 2005 Pan Wen-Yuan Research Award, a 1998 IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport Award, and the 1991 Connecticut Yankee Ingenuity Award.
He is an Honorary Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin University, and National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan, as well as an Honorary Guest Professor at Peking University and Tsinghua University.  He also serves as the Chief Scientific Advisor to Suzhou Industrial Park’s Nano/Mocroelectronics Industries, and Head of the Fujian Government’s Overseas Scientific/Technology Advisory Group.