The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 64 new members and nine foreign associates this year, announced February 9. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,217 and the number of foreign associates to 188. Chinese Americans who have been elected include
* Stephen Y. Chou for contributions to nanoscale patterning and to the scaling of electronic, photonic, magnetic, and biological devices. He received earlier the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award "for the invention and development of tools for nanoscale patterning, especially nanoimprint lithography, and for the scaling of devices into new physical regimes."
Stephen Y. Chou, Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, received a B.S from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1978, a M.A from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1982, and a PhD from MIT in 1986, all in Physics. In 1986, Professor Chou joined Stanford University, first as a Research Associate, then as a Lecturer, and later as an Acting Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering. In 1989, he joined the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. He became an Associate Professor in 1992 and a Professor in 1994. Professor Chou has been with Princeton University since 1997. Presently, as the head of the NanoStructure Laboratory at Princeton, Professor Chou leads a group of 20 researchers in exploration of innovative nanofabrication technologies and nanodevices in multiple disciplines. As an entrepreneur, Professor Chou founded Nanonex Corp. in 1999 and NanoOpto Corp. in 2000 and has been involved in their initial phases of financing, team building, operations, and products development.
Professor Chou is a world leader in a broad range of nanotechnologies. Over the years, he has originated and/or developed a variety of nanotechnologies and nanodevices across the fields of electronics, optoelectronics, magnetics, and materials. The most well-known examples include nanoimprint lithography (NIL) - a new approach to pattern nanostructures with low-cost and high-throughput, lithographically-induced self-assembly (LISA), patterned-media (or quantized magnetic disks), subwavelength optical elements, single electron transistors, ultra-small MOSFETs, resonant tunneling devices, single-domain magnetics structures, and wafer-scale guided self-assembly methods. Professor Chou is an IEEE Fellow and a Packard Fellow. Among other awards he has received are the McKnight-Land Grant Professorship, George Taylor Distinguished Research Award at the University of Minnesota, Elgin Professorship at Princeton University, DARPA ULTRA program Significant Technical Achievement Award, and three best paper awards. He has published more than 280 journal and conference papers and has given over 100 invited presentations at conferences and workshops.
* Shun Chong Fung for the investigation of factors underlying the deactivation and reactivation of catalysts, and for application of the findings in commercial practice.
Shun Chong Fung received a MS in 1967 and a PhD in 1969 all from University of Illinois in Chemical Engineering. He is retired senior research associate, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co.
* Simon S. Lam for contributions to computer network protocols and network security services.
Department of Computer Sciences. Simon S. Lan, Professor and Regents Chair in Computer Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, received a B.;S. With distinction in electrial engineering in 1969 from Washington State University, Pullman, and a M.S. in 1970 and a Ph.D. in 1974, all from University of California, Los Angeles.
Prof. Lam received many honors and awards, including ACM Software System Award (2004) (co-recipient), SIGCOMM Award (2004) for lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks, W. Wallace McDowell Award (2004), IEEE Computer Society,William R. Bennett Prize (2001) in the field of Communications Circuits and Techniques, IEEE Communications Society (co-recipient), ACM Fellow (elected 1998), IEEE Fellow (elected 1985), Leonard G. Abraham Prize (1975) in the field of Communications Systems, and IEEE Communications Society (co-recipient).
* Teresa H. Meng for pioneering the development of distributed wireless network technology.
Teresa H. Meng is the Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.. She has received many awards and honors for her research work at Stanford: an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, an IBM Faculty Development Award, a Best Paper Award and a Distinguished Lecturer Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Eli Jury Award from U.C. Berkeley, and awards from AT&T, Okawa Foundation and other industry and academic organizations.
In 1999, Dr. Meng took leave from Stanford and founded Atheros Communications, Inc., which provides leading wireless system solutions for transparent connections of data, video, and voice communications. As a result of this effort, Dr. Meng was named one of the Top 10 Entrepreneurs in 2001 by Red Herring, Innovator of the Year in 2002 by MIT Sloan School eBA, the CIO 20/20 Vision Award in 2002, and the DEMO@15 World-Class Innovator Award in 2005. She returned to Stanford in 2000 to continue her research and teaching at the University.
* Syd S. Peng for leadership in the development of advanced longwall-mining and ground-subsidence-control technologies.
Prof. Peng, Charles E. Lawall Chair in Mining Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, was born and educated in mining engineering in Taiwan. He came to the U.S. for advanced study in 1965 and received a M.S. in Mining Engineering in 1967 from South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, and a Ph.D. in Mining Engineering in 1970 from Stanford University. From 1970 to 1974, he worked for the U.S. Bureau of Mines in Minneapolis, Minnesota and joined West Virginia University in 1974. In 1978 Syd S. Peng was appointed Chairman of the Department of Mining Engineering and serve in that position ever since. In 1985, he established the Long Wall Mining and Ground Control Research Center. In 1987, he was appointed C. T. Holland Distinguished Professor, and in 2006 appointed Charles E. Lawall Chair in Mining Engineering. His newest revised Longwall 2nd edition was published in October,2006.