Harold Y. Hwang

Harold Y. Hwang is Professor of Applied Physics (Stanford University) and Photon Science (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy, and Director of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences. He received a BS in Physics, BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT (1993), and a PhD in Physics from Princeton University (1997). He was formerly a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories (1996-2003) and Professor at the University of Tokyo (2003-2010). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Awards include the MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award (2005), the IBM Japan Science Prize (Physics, 2008), the Ho-Am Prize (Science, 2013), the Europhysics Prize (2014, with Jochen Mannhart and Jean-Marc Triscone), and the McGroddy Prize (2024).