William S. Wong

William S. Wong is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the
Giga-to-Nanoelectronics Center at the University of Waterloo.
Professor Wong received his Ph.D. from the University of California,
Berkeley in 1999. From 2000-2010, William was a Senior Member of
Research Staff at the Palo Alto Research Center (formerly Xerox PARC).
His research is focused on processing and studying electronic and
optoelectronic thin-film and nanowire devices. His work includes laser
liftoff techniques that enable the present generation of ultra-bright
LEDs for solid-state lighting and novel processing technologies for
printed large-area flexible electronics. He is the holder of 50 U.S.
patents (with 35 pending) and 80 publications, including 29 invited
talks and 16 invited papers, in the area of electronic materials
growth, processing, and characterization. He is a member of the IEEE,
the Materials Research Society, and is on the Editorial Board of IEEE
Electron Device Letters. He also is an invited organizer and elected
committee member of the Electronic Materials Conference (EMC/TMS).