Tannas Professor of Electrical Engineering

Professor Wong examines ultrafast, precision, and quantum measurements in mesoscopic systems. He serves as a faculty member at the University of California and, prior to that, a tenured faculty
member at Columbia University. He is a member of the National Academy of Inventors, the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of APS, IEEE, OSA, ASME and SPIE.

He is a recipient of the NIH Early Scientist Trailblazer Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, NSF
CAREER Award, Google Faculty Award and 3M Faculty Award among others. He is also a finalist in the
Qualcomm Innovation Award, Maiman Award, and holds the Global Foundry visiting professorship at the National University of Singapore.

He completed his Doctorate of Science in 2003 and the Masters of Science in 2001, both from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1996 to 1999, he completed his double degree, B.Sc. with
highest distinction and B.A. with highest distinction, both from the University of California at
Berkeley.

Professor Wong’s work has appeared in more than 180+ journal and 340+ conference papers, including
Nature, Science Advances, Physical Review Letters, Nature Physics, Nature Photonics, Nature
Communications, Nature – Light: Science & Applications series amongst others. He delivered 135+
plenary and invited talks at universities and industry, published 4 book chapters, and has been
awarded 30 patents and 9 provisional patents. He has supervised and trained 73 PhD students and
research scientists, about a third are now in their own professorships including full professors,
and sat on 112 PhD thesis committees. In his spare time, he enjoys playing the piano, running, and
snowboarding.