Teresa H. Meng

Meng was born and raised in Taiwan. Her mother was an accountant and her father, Shih-Ko Meng, was an industrial engineer who co-founded the first semiconductor manufacturing company in Taiwan in the 1970s.

After high school, Meng graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering in 1983. She then earned her Master of Science in electrical engineering and computer science in 1985 and her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science in 1988 from the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral dissertation, completed under Robert W. Brodersen and David Messerschmitt, was titled, "Asynchronous design for digital signal processing architectures".

She joined the Stanford faculty in 1988. Her research activities in the first 10 years focused on low-power circuit and system design, video signal processing, and wireless communications. In 1998, Prof. Meng took leave from Stanford and founded Atheros Communications, Inc., which developed semiconductor system solutions for wireless network communications products.

After returning to Stanford in 2000, Meng continued her teaching and research, and turned her research interest to applying signal processing and IC design to bio-medical engineering. She collaborated with Prof. Krishna Shenoy on neural signal processing and neural prosthetic systems. She also directed a research group exploring wireless power transfer and implantable bio-medical devices.

Prof. Meng retired from Stanford in 2013. She serves on the boards of Ambarella and the Alliance Cultural Foundation International and is Advisor to Atmosic Technologies.

In 2019, Teresa H. Meng was the recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell medal. This marked the first time a female was the recipient of the award. Meng was awarded this due to her contributions and leadership in the development of wireless semiconductor technology. In 2024, Meng receives Marconi Prize.