Franky So

Dr. Franky So is currently the Walter and Ida Freeman Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the North Carolina State University. Previously, he was the Rolf E Hummel Professor of Electronic Materials and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. Prior to joining academia, he conducted industry-leading research on OLEDS (organic light-emitting diodes) at Motorola and OSRAM Opto-Semiconductors for 14 years. Dr. So is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, IEEE, OSA and SPIE. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Materials Science and Engineering Reports and Associate Editor of four other research journals and chairs the OLED Symposium of the SPIE Optics and Photonics conference. Dr. So holds 80 issued patents and has 14 pending. He has over 150 publications and has a Google H-index of over 70. Dr. So received the PhD in EE from the University of Southern California, the MS in Material Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the BA in Physics from Hamilton College.