Electronics | 2022 Young Investigator Award—Winner Announced

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Electronics 2022 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Houqiang Fu.

Dr. Houqiang Fu is an assistant professor at the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University, Temple, USA. Dr. Fu’s research interests are exploring novel materials and developing next-generation electronic and photonic/optoelectronic devices as well as systems to address critical societal needs in regard to energy efficiency, computing, communication, and sensing, which are at the interdisciplinary intersection of electrical engineering, materials science, photonics, and physics. Dr. Fu received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University (ASU) in 2019, and he has an outstanding publication record; his work has been chronicled in over 160 journal and conference publications, 4 book chapters, 2 granted patents, and 10 pending patents. His research has been featured by many media outlets, including IEEE Spectrum, Semiconductor Today, Compound Semiconductor, and Silicon Valley Microelectronics, and has been collectively cited more than 16,000 times (Hirsch index of 25). He is a rising star in the field of third-generation wide-bandgap semiconductor materials and devices, in addition to their optoelectronic applications. Despite his young age, Dr. Fu has been the recipient of several academic prizes, including the 2021 ISU Regents Innovation Fund Award, the 2019 Palais Outstanding Doctoral Award (the highest honor for ASU ECEE Ph.D. graduates), and the 2018 ASU Outstanding Research Award. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Fu for his outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Fu will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, a certificate, and an offer to publish one paper free of charge in Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) after peer review before the end of June 2023.

On behalf of the Assessment Committee Members—Dr. Xiongfeng Ma, Prof. Dr. Boris Andrievsky, Prof. Dr. Elias Stathatos, Dr. Nikolay Hinov, and Prof. Dr. Kiat Seng Yeo—we congratulate the winner on his accomplishments. We would also like to thank all of the nominators from various fields of study for their participation as well as all of the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent nominations.

Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Editor-in-Chief of Electronics