Prof. Ching W. Tang, IAS Bank of East Asia Professor and Chair Professor of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Chemistry and Physics at HKUST, is the recipient of the 2019 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology awarded by the Inamori Foundation in recognition for his "pioneering contributions to the birth of high-efficiency Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) and their applications". He is a Hong Kong native and the first person of Chinese descent to win the Kyoto Prize since it was established in 1985.
The Kyoto Prize Symposium is co-hosted by UC San Diego & Point Loma Nazarene University. The program will include Prof. Tang’s Kyoto Prize lecture (hosted by Prof. Darren LIPOMI, Professor, Department of Nano Engineering, University of California, San Diego), followed by live conversation with Prof. Tang and Prof. Lipomi about recent and potential developments in OLED technology.
