Tso-Ping Ma
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Yale University (PhD)
Tso-Ping Ma | |
|---|---|
馬佐平/马佐平 | |
| Born | November 13, 1945 |
| Died | April 6, 2021 (aged 75) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | National Taiwan University (BS) Yale University (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical engineering Applied physics |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Thesis | Surface States in Thick-Oxide MOS Tunnel Junctions (1974) |
| Doctoral students | C. C. Wei |
Tso-Ping Ma (simplified Chinese: 马佐平; traditional Chinese: 馬佐平; November 13, 1945 – April 6, 2021) was a Taiwanese-American electronic engineer and professor of electrical engineering and applied physics at Yale University, USA.
Tso-Ping Ma was born in Lanzhou, China in 1945, but relocated to Taiwan during the Great Retreat to escape the Chinese Civil War.[1] After graduating from National Taiwan University in 1968, Ma completed doctoral studies in the United States, where he earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1974.[2][3] His doctoral dissertation was titled, "Surface States in Thick-Oxide MOS Tunnel Junctions."[4]
Career
Ma joined IBM from 1975 to 1977.[5] In 1977, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University as a faculty member.[6] In 1985, he became a professor. His research focused on semiconductor devices, logic and memory technologies.[7] At Yale, Ma held the Raymond John Wean Professorship of Electrical Engineering from 2002 and chaired the Electrical Engineering Department.[8][9]