Dr. Hong Q. Hou
physics
fabrinet
Taiwan
Biography
Dr. Hou joined Fabrinet as Executive Vice President and its Chief Technical Officer in January 2016. He has extensive technical and executive-level experience in the compound semiconductor and fiber-optic communication industries. In 1998 Dr. Hou co-founded EMCORE Corporation’s (NASDAQ: EMKR) photovoltaic division and led in the commercialization of its high-efficiency multi-junction solar cell technology for space power applications. From 2008 to 2015, he served as EMCORE’s President, CEO and a member of its Board of Directors. From January 2015 to June 2015 he served as a venture partner at ARCH Venture Partners, and from June 2015 to January 2016 he served as the Chief Operating Officer of AXT, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXTI). Dr. Hou holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at San Diego, and he has completed executive management courses at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Early in his career he conducted research at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Sandia National Laboratories. He holds eight U.S. patents and has published more than 200 technical articles.
Research Interest
management
