Hocheng Hong

Hocheng Hong
賀陳弘
Deputy Minister of Science
In office
February 2012 – 2014
MinisterCyrus Chu
Succeeded byLin Yi-bing
Personal details
RelativesHochen Tan (brother)
EducationNational Taiwan University (BS)
RWTH Aachen (Diplom)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)

Hocheng Hong (Chinese: 賀陳弘; pinyin: Hèchén Hóng) is a Taiwanese academic and mechanical engineer. He served as the Deputy Minister of the National Science Council of the Executive Yuan from 2012 to 2014 and is the current president of National Tsing Hua University. He is the younger brother of Hochen Tan.

Education

Hong graduated from National Taiwan University with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and earned a diplom in the subject from RWTH Aachen University in Germany. He then went to the United States and earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988. His doctoral dissertation, completed under professor C. K. H. Dharan, was titled, "An analysis of drilling of composite materials".

References

  1. ↑ National Science Council[link removed]
  2. ↑ "Unknown".
  3. ↑ NTHU
  4. ↑ Proquest