Kang Lung Wang is recognized as the discoverer of chiral Majorana fermions by IUPAP.
In 1979 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of UCLA, where he is a Professor and leads the Device Research Laboratory [2] (DRL).
He was the inventor of strained layer MOSFET, quantum SRAM cell, and band-aligned superlattices.
He is a passionate teacher and has mentored hundreds of students, including MS and PhD candidates.
He serves on the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology TM (American Scientific publishers).
He currently also serves as the Director of Marco Focus Center on Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics (FENA), an interdisciplinary Research Center, funded by Semiconductor Industry Association and Department of Defense to address the need of information processing technology beyond scaled CMOS.
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