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Founding Chairman of Southern California Monte Jade Science & Technology Association
南加玉山科技協會創會理事長 :Dr. Owen K. Wu, Ph. D. 吳國增博士 E-mail
Dr. Wu is the founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Global Communication Semiconductors (GCS), Inc. He was the CEO and President of GCS from 1997-2001. With more than 20 years of experience in compound semiconductor industry, he raised $50+ M for GCS during last five years. Dr. Wu was responsible for setting the corporate vision and strategy, assembling the technical and management team, and providing leadership and direction to the company. GCS is the leading compound semiconductor pure-play foundry for wireless and fiber optical communication industries.
Previously, he was the program manager and principal scientist of infrared optoelectronics at Hughes Research Laboratory of Hughes Aircraft Company from 1985-1997. He led a team to develop several crucial infrared materials and processing technologies for the compound semiconductor industry. His team was awarded the National Herschel Award in 1995. He holds several key patents and has published over 80 papers and two book chapters. He was twice awarded the Electro-Optic Sensors & Technology Network Council Award in recognition of truly significant and innovative contribution at Hughes.
He was the department manager at Gould Inc. in Chicago from 1980 to 1985, where he developed GaAs PHEMT technology and transferred to production in 2 years. In 1980, he was elected as American Vacuum Scholar and the executive committee member in the Chicago Chapter of American Vacuum Society from 1982-1985. He was the founding member of Semiconductor Material Society in Chicago in 1984. He was the Chairman of Board of Chinese Christian Church of Chicago in 1982-1984 and the Chairman of Board of Chinese Christian Church of Thousand Oaks, California in 1992-1994. He is currently serving as President of Photonics Society of Chinese America in Southern California.
Dr. Wu has been married for 25 years with one daughter. His hobby includes classical music, tennis and golf. Dr. Wu received his B.S. degree from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in 1973 and M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from University of Illinois-Chicago in 1976 and 1978. He did his postdoctoral research at Argonne National Laboratory in 1979.
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