Dr. Wan-Thai Hsu

Dr. Wan-Thai Hsu has 30 years of experience in MEMS. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Michigan. Over the past 30 years, his work in MEMS has been recognized globally, earning him prestigious awards, such as the EE Times ACE Innovator of the Year Award (2007), Wall Street Journal Innovation Award (2007), and IEEE CB Sawyer Award (2015). He has held various positions of critical importance in startups as well as publicly traded companies, including CTO of Discera, CTO of MEMS at Micrel (now Microchip), CTO of TXC, CEO of Siliconquartz, and Chairman of the Board at Stathera. He is a senior member of IEEE, chaired the annual IEEE Frequency Control Symposium in 2014 and the decennial IEEE UFFC Joint Symposium in 2024.

Currently, Dr. Hsu is the Chief Technology Officer at Soundskrit, which aims to develop bio-inspired MEMS audio systems to provide the capability not only to capture sound with high quality, but also to distinguish sound localization. Under his leadership in innovation, Soundskrit was named the top 100 startups to watch by EE Times in 2023 and 2024 consecutively.  He often says, “the process of converting pure ideas to something that people can benefit from is exciting and rewarding.”