Ming-Tso Wei's Personal Website Ming-Tso Wei's Personal Website

Ming-Tso Wei (Ming)

Senior Engineer
Qualcomm Atheros Inc.
 Livermore, CA, USA
 mtwei@alumni.duke.edu
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Standing on a honeycomb lattice and enjoying coffee at Georgetown Waterfront Park, Washington, DC, USA.

Welcome to my personal website!

I am both a hardware engineer and a physicist enthusiastic about innovative technologies and solving technical problems. I am now a senior engineer at Qualcomm in Santa Clara, responsible for developing automated testing programs for production testing of latest Wi-Fi RF/mixed-signal ICs.

Prior to my new journey in the chip industry, I worked as a postdoc in the academia for 4 years. In my childhood, I used to dream about being a scientist. Most of my 9-year-long journey was enjoyable; however, to better support my family financially after my son was born, I decided to make a career switch from academia to industry.

In my 9-year-long academic career as an experimental quantum physicist, I contributed 12 peer-reviewed publications in quantum materials and superconducting devices, developed proficient knowledge in solid state physics and quantum physics, and also acquired diverse hands-on skills in superconducting device fabrication, and characterization, dilution refrigeration, low-noise electronics, measurement and instrumentation with Python and LabVIEW, 3D CAD mechanical design and prototyping, RF noise measurement, electromagnetic simulation with COMSOL Multiphysics and ANSYS HFSS, and data analysis / numerical modeling with Python and MATLAB. Although in my current position I only use about 10% of my skills I acquired as a low-temperature condensed matter physicist, I found that some mindsets for problem solving and idea realizations I learned from Ph.D. training are still very useful in the industry.

Prior to pursuing Ph.D. in physics in the United States, I obtained a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, then worked in the display industry for about a year in Taiwan, performing OLED fabrication development and characterization as an intern at AU Optronics, and working on failure analysis on controller boards of a MEMS-based display and PCB schematics design for a multi-board testing platform as an engineer at Qualcomm MEMS Technology.

In my free time...

I enjoy every moment with my wife and my son. We love to go hiking or traveling with him.

I am also interested in learning new technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, quantum computing softwares, and FPGAs.

Music is also an important part of my life. I have a diverse taste in music, such as classical, pop, rap, and hip-hop. I enjoy playing viola and piano in my free time. From 2012 to 2013, I was also a tenor of Taipei Philharmonic Chorus and performed several times with the National Symphony Orchestra at the National Concert Hall in Taiwan.