Biography: Professor C.P. Wong is the Charles Smithgall Institute Endowed Chair and Regents’ Professor. After his doctoral study, he was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with Nobel Laureate Professor Henry Taube at Stanford University. His research interests lie in the fields of polymeric materials, electronic packaging and interconnect, interfacial adhesions, nano-functional material syntheses and characterizations. nano-composites such as well-aligned carbon nanotubes, grahenes, lead-free alloys, flip-chip  underfill, ultra high k capacitor composites and novel lotus effect coating materials.

He received many awards, among those, the AT&T Bell Labs Fellow Award in 1992, the IEEE CPMT Society Outstanding Sustained Technical Contributions Award in 1995, the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Faculty Best Research Paper Award in 1999, Best MS, PhD and undergraduate Thesis Awards in 2002 and 2004, respectively, the University Press (London) Award of Excellence, the IEEE CPMT Society Exceptional Technical Contributions Award in 2002, the 2009 IEEE-CPMT David Feldman Outstanding Contribution Award and the 2009 Penn State University Distinguished Alumni Award.He holds over 50 U.S. patents, numerous international patents, has published over 1000 technical papers, 10 books and a member of the National Academy of Engineering of the USA since 2000.