Ming Hsieh shares his journey as an engineer and innovator with the Trojan family including a new generation of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) students, recounting his humble beginnings in rural China to his rise as founder and innovator in the biometrics scene.

As a child, Ming Hsieh fondly recalls helping his father repair electronic grids in the Chinese countryside. It was the 1970s, and his father was adamant to introduce electricity to a rural village. Hsieh said his experience helping his father work on electrical materials have shaped his early interests in electrical engineering, which eventually paved his beginning as an innovator in the field.

Hsieh, USC Life Trustee, benefactor, and the namesake of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at USC, was the featured speaker in the Ming Hsieh Institute’s 2024 Electrical Engineering Pioneer Series Lecture on Oct. 23. The series showcases outstanding members of the USC Electrical Engineering faculty, aiming to capture and memorialize the inspiring journeys and stories of the many individuals who have helped shape and develop the USC ECE department, and the field as a whole, with their enduring technical and societal contributions… Continue reading.