Biography:

 Dr. Mansun Chan is Alex Wong Siu Wah Gigi Wong Fook Chi Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and his expertise is in the area of emerging semiconductor devices. In addition to academic research, his has been actively involved in many entrepreneurship and educational activities. Having an MSc. Degree in Finance and connection to venture capital, Prof. Chan has helped many startups to obtain fundings. Three companies in which he has invested have successfully gone public in the U.S. and China and a few more are poised to do so.  On the education front, Prof. Chan was the Chairman the IEEE EDS Education Committee, and he started a series of electronic circuit construction training modules and competitions to primary and secondary school students. These activities have become the main vehicle for IEEE to reach out to young engineers. More recently, he has launched an animation based MOOC class on semiconductor devices, which has been widely received by learners around the world. As a result of his educational activities, he has received the teaching award three times from the Engineering School of HKUST, and the IEEE EDS Education Award “for pioneering innovative approaches in electronic engineering education”. He is a Distinguished Lecturer and Fellow of IEEE.