Wei Wu

Biography

Wei Wu graduated from Peking University with a BS in Physics in 1996 and received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2003. He is a Professor at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California. Before joining USC in 2012, he had worked as a research associate, scientist, and senior scientist at HP Labs. His work includes nanoimprint lithography and applications in nano-electronics, nano-photonics, plasmonics, chemical sensing, and nano-electrochemical cells. He co-authored 127 peer-reviewed scientific journal papers with 12489 citations, 2 book chapters, and more than 150 conference presentations, including 16 keynote and invited presentations. He has 121 granted US patents. Half of them were also filed internationally. His H-index is 54. He is a co-editor of Applied Physics A, an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, and an associate editor of Nanomaterials. He was also an IEEE Nanotechnology Council 2015 and 2016 distinguished lecturer, and a recipient of the USC Stevens Center for Innovation Commercialization Award 2020. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).