H.-S. Philip Wong

H.-S. Philip Wong is the Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, where he has been since 2004. He holds the rank of Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and serves as the Director of the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility. Prior to Stanford, he spent 16 years at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center and served as Vice President of Corporate Research at TSMC (2018–2020), remaining as Chief Scientist in an advisory role thereafter.

• Leadership roles include founding the Stanford SystemX Alliance and leading the Microelectronics Commons AI Hardware Hub funded by the CHIPS Act.
• Research focuses on nanotechnology, semiconductor devices, and next-generation computing architectures, including carbon nanotube electronics, 3D integration (N3XT/MOSAIC), and neuromorphic computing.
• Awarded IEEE Fellow (2001), the IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award, and the J.J. Ebers Award for contributions to electron devices.

His work spans device physics, fabrication, and system integration, with over 600 publications. Key contributions include advancements in phase-change memory, carbon nanotube transistors, and compute-in-memory systems. He advises numerous students and collaborates with industry through initiatives like the Stanford Non-Volatile Memory Technology Research Initiative.

Recent efforts emphasize AI hardware acceleration, cryo-CMOS for quantum computing, and scalable memory architectures. His lab innovations include CellChips for synthetic biology and hyperdimensional computing using 3D RRAM.