Ping K. Ko

Professor Ko is President & CEO of Silicon Federation International Limited (SFI). SFI consists of more than 10 member companies and each of the investees is top-notch in its own area of specialization. He received his B.S. degree in Physics from Hong Kong University in 1974, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from the University of California at Berkeley, in 1978, and 1982 respectively. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1984, and was Vice Chairman of the EECS department and Director of the Berkeley Microfabrication Laboratory. He served as the Dean of Engineering at the Hong Kong Institute of Science and technology from May 1994 to July 1999. He was awarded the Justice of Peace in 1997, and is actively involved in the IC development of Shenzhen Industrialized Base.