Prof. Mansun Chan

Chair Professor
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology


Prof. Mansun Chan received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. Subsequently, he joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and he is now the Alex Wong Siu Wah Gigi Wong Fook Chi Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering. He was one of the major contributors to the unified BSIM model for SPICE, which has been accepted by most US companies and the Compact Model Council (CMC) as the first industrial standard MOSFET model. His current research interests include emerging nano-device technologies, 2-D device for flexible electronics, CMOS interconnect technology, Artificial Neural Network systems, new-generation memory technology, BioNEMS, device modeling and ultra-low power circuit techniques.

Prof. Chan has been actively contributing to the professional community and hold many positions. He was a Board of Governor, Chair of the Education Committee, the Chair of the Region 10 subcommittee and a Distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Electron Device Society. He has also chaired many international conferences and acting as editors for a number of technical journals. In addition, he has received many awards including the UC Regents Fellowship, Golden Keys Scholarship for Academic Excellence, SRC Inventor Recognition Award, Rockwell Research Fellowship, R&D 100 award (for the BSIM3v3 project), IEEE EDS Education Award, Distinguished Teaching Award, Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation awards etc. He is a Fellow of IET and IEEE.