Ming Hsieh is a billionaire Chinese-born American entrepreneur and philanthropist.
17 Facts About Ming Hsieh
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Ming Hsieh founded Cogent Systems in 1990, and sold it to 3M in 2010.
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Ming Hsieh was born in 1956 in Shenyang, the capital city of Liaoning province in Northeast China.
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Ming Hsieh 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.
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Ming 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.
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Ming Hsieh earned his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from USC in 1983 and his Master of Science in electrical engineering in 1984.
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Ming Hsieh's parents wanted him to continue and earn a Ph.
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Ming Hsieh began his professional career in 1985 as a circuit designer for International Rectifier.
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Ming Hsieh co-founded his first company, AMAX Information Technologies, a high performance computing and storage vendor, which specialized in servers, storage systems and related hardware, with several fellow USC graduates in 1987.
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Ming Hsieh was president, chairman, and CEO of the company.
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Ming Hsieh went public via an IPO in 2004, and by 2007 had numerous government contracts including the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Prisons, FBI and Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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Ming Hsieh took the company public via IPO in 2016.
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Ming Hsieh was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.
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In October 2006, Ming Hsieh donated $35 million to USC's Viterbi School of Engineering's Department of Electrical Engineering, 100 years after the department and school's founding.
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In October 2010, Ming Hsieh donated $50 million to USC for cancer research.
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In November 2007, Ming Hsieh donated $5.5 million, cash and in-kind, to West Virginia University's Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Department of Forensic Investigative Sciences, one of only ten in the nation.
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Ming Hsieh is married to Eva Hsieh; they reside in Pasadena and have two children.