Prof Kei May Lau
Professor Emeritus, Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering, HKUST

Kei May Lau is a Research Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was a Chair Professor of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) until 2022

She received her degrees from the University of Minnesota and Rice University and served as a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst before joining HKUST in 2000. Lau is a Fellow of the IEEE, Optica (formerly OSA), and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. She was also a recipient of the IET J J Thomson medal for Electronics, Optica Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, IEEE Photonics Society Aron Kressel Award, US National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Awards for Women (FAW) Scientists and Engineers, and Hong Kong Croucher Senior Research Fellowship. She was an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and Electron Device Letters, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Crystal Growth and Applied Physics Letters.