Professor Ching Ping Wong, a world-renowned scholar in electronic engineering, was appointed as HKIAS Senior Fellow in October 2019.

Professor Wong is currently the Emeritus Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He was appointed as the new Dean of Engineering at CUHK in 2010.

He received his BS degree from Purdue University, and his PhD degree from the Pennsylvania State University. After his doctoral study, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship under Nobel laureate Professor Henry Taube at Stanford University. Prior to joining Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories for many years and became an AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow in 1992.

His research interests lie in the fields of polymeric electronic materials, electronic, photonic and MEMS packaging and interconnect, interfacial adhesions, and nano-functional material syntheses and characterizations.

Professor Wong has published widely with over 900 technical papers. He has yielded fruitful research results and holds over 50 US patents. Professor Wong is considered an industry legend and has made significant contributions to the industry by pioneering new materials, which fundamentally changed the semiconductor packaging technology.