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Ma, who is also a professor of applied physics, is currently chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and co-director of the Yale Center for Microelectronics.
The Yale engineer is the holder or co-holder of four patents for electronic devices. He co-edited the 1989 book "Ionizing Radiation Effects in MOS Devices & Circuits" and has also authored several book chapters and more than 150 journal articles.
Ma, who is a native of China, earned his B.S. from National Taiwan University and was an electronics engineer at Makong Air Base before enrolling at Yale, where he earned an M.Ph. in 1971 and a Ph.D. in 1974. He was an engineer for several years at IBM in East Fishkill, New York, where he conducted research on advanced silicon device technology and ionizing radiation effects in MOS devices. In 1977, he joined the Yale faculty after serving for a year as a visiting lecturer on campus.
At Yale, Ma has been a mentor and adviser to two student winners of the national BF Goodrich National Collegiate Investors competition. For his own scientific contributions, he has received Yale's Harding Bliss Prize, a Yankee Ingenuity Award from the State of Connecticut and the Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEEE) Electron Device Society's Paul Rappaport Award. He also was honored with a GE Whitney Lectureship from General Electric.
A consultant for industry worldwide, Ma has been the principal investigator of joint research and development projects with such companies as IBM, Intel, Motorola, Lucent Technology, General Electric, Siemens, Hitachi and Toshiba, among others. He has also been a guest at numerous international conferences.
The engineer has also been active in the campus community, serving as vice president (1986-1987) and then president (1987-1988) of the Yale chapter of Sigma Xi and as president of the New Haven Chapter of the Organization of Chinese Americans (1989-1990). He was the faculty adviser to the Yale Chinese Student Service between 1978 and 1985 is a current adviser to the Yale Mainland-Taiwan Society and the Yale China Forum. He has twice been vice president of the Yale Figure Skating Club, most recently serving in that capacity for the past five years.
Ma is a fellow of the IEEE and is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, the American Physical Society, the Electrochemical Society, the Materials Research Society, Sigma Xi and the Yale Science and Engineering Association. He is an honorary professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and an honorary guest professor at China's Tsinghua, Tianjin and Shandong universities.
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