Ming Hsieh was born in 1956 in Shenyang, the capital city of Liaoning province in Northeast China.
[2] He was home-schooled by his parents, and learned the trade of electrical engineering from his formally trained father as they built a crude power system for the unelectrified village and did a variety of repair work.
[2] After the Cultural Revolution ended in late 1976, Hsieh studied semiconductor physics at South China University of Technology for two years.
Hsieh, had left China and earned a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1952, and then worked for TRW.
[4] Hsieh began his professional career in 1985 as a circuit designer for International Rectifier.
[3] The company went public via an IPO in 2004,[4] and by 2007 had numerous government contracts including the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Prisons, FBI and Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
[10] In honor of his donation, WVU named a building on their downtown campus, Ming Hsieh Hall.