Stella W. Pang ( zh, 彭慧芝) is an engineer known for her work on microfabrication, biomaterials, nanostructures,

microelectromechanical systems Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), also written as micro-electro-mechanical systems (or microelectronic and microelectromechanical systems) and the related micromechatronics and microsystems constitute the technology of microscopic devices, ...

, and microfluidics. She is Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong, Director of the Centre for Biosystems, Neuroscience, and Nanotechnology, and was the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering.

Education and career

Pang graduated from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science in electrical and computer engineering. She went to Princeton University for graduate study in electrical engineering and computer science, earning a Master of Science in 1978 and completing her Ph.D. in 1981. From 1981 to 1989 she was a researcher at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In 1990 she returned to academia as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, and in 2012 she took her present position as Chair Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. She became department head in 2016.

Recognition

Pang was named a

Fellow of the IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

in 1999, "for identification and removal of process-induced damage in Si and compound semiconductor devices, and advancing the science of nanofabrication technology". She is also a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society, of the

Electrochemical Society The Electrochemical Society is a learned society (professional association) based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of electrochemistry and solid-state science and related technology. The Society membership compris ...

, and of

The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE, ) is a professional body of engineers in Hong Kong. It was founded in 1947 as the ''Engineering Society of Hong Kong'' and was incorporated by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong as ''The Hong Kong ...

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