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Ming Hsieh
Edit Profile谢明, 謝明
philanthropist founder of Cogent Systems
Education
University of Southern California.
Career
According to Forbes magazine, his estimated Netto worth exceeds $1.6 billion, ranking him the 198th richest person in America and 562nd among The World"s Richest People In 2006. His family originated in Guangzhou (Canton). Hsieg was raised in Shenyang, the capital city of Liaoning province in Northeast China.
His family was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution as a part of China"s upper middle class having ties with the old national government and moved to Taiwan (Yingzhou, Ming"s grandfather, was famous high-ranking official of Republic of China).
As a result, his family was forced to move in 1966 to a small village near Panjin. At the age of 10, Hsieh"s formal education stopped for the next ten years.
During that period, Hsieh learned the trade of electrical engineering from his formally trained father as they built a crude power system for the village they were assigned to and did odd repair work. Hsieh"s uncle, P.Y. Hsieh, had left China and earned a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1952 before working for Thompson Ramo Wooldridge. Hsieh earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California in 1983 and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1984.
Hsieh began work as a circuit designer for International Rectifier.
After two and a half years, he decided to start his own business. He founded Cogent Systems Incorporated. which offered fully automated, high-speed biometric fingerprint system. The company began receiving numerous government contracts and now includes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Royal Canadian Mounted Police amongst its customers.
He is elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.
In October 2006, Hsieh donated $35 million to University of Southern California"s Viterbi School of Engineering"s Department of Electrical Engineering, 100 years after the department and school"s founding. In honor of his donation, the department was renamed the University of Southern California Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering.
In October 2010, Hsieh donated $50 million to University of Southern California for cancer research. He is on the University of Southern California Board of Trustees.
In February 2014, he donated United States$1 million to the Children"s Hospital Los Los Angeles
