Ming C. Wu is Nortel Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. He is Co-Director of Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC) and Faculty Director of Berkeley Berkeley Marvell Nanolab.

Dr. Wu received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1983 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986 and 1988, respectively. From 1988 to 1992, he was a Member of Technical Staff with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill. From 1993 to 2004, he was a professor with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Since 2005, he has been a professor with the University of California, Berkeley, He is the author of more than 500 papers in journals and conferences and 25 U.S. patents. His research interests include Optical MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems), MOEMS, optofluidics, silicon photonics, nanophotonics, and optoelectronics.

Prof. Wu is an IEEE Fellow and a Packard Foundation Fellow (1992 – 1997). He was a member of the IEEE Photonics Society Board of Governors from 2013 to 2016. He was a recipient of the IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award in 2016, the Optical Society of America Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award in 2007, and the Optical Society of America C.E.K. Mees Medal in 2017.