Bill Tang

Dr. William C. Tang is the program manager at the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) at DARPA. Currently, he manages the MEMS, Micro Power Generation, and Nano Mechanical Array Signal Processors programs.

Dr. William C. Tang received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990. He seminal thesis work on the electrostatic comb drive has become a crucial building block for many microactuator and microsensor research in the field. In 1990, he joined Ford Research Laboratory in Dearborn, Michigan, and championed surface-micromachined accelerometer research. In 1993, he became the Sensor Research Manager at Ford Microelectronics, Inc., in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he managed key process development programs that contributed to the eventual mass production of airbag accelerometer. In 1996, he joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, where he was the Supervisor of the MEMS Technology Group, leading forefront research in MEMS technology for space applications. Since July 1999, he has been the Program Manager at the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Currently, he is managing the MEMS, Micro Power Generation, and the Nano Mechanical Array Signal Processors programs. Including the patent on electrostatic comb-drive actuator, Dr. Tang was awarded four U. S. patents and one patent pending on MEMS designs and technologies. He is the author and co-author for over forty conferences and refereed papers in the MEMS field, and is frequently invited to speak in seminars and workshops. Dr. Tang is currently serving on the Editorial Board for the Institute of Physics Publishing, contributing to the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. He is also an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Micromechatronics, published by VSP International Science Publishers. Dr. Tang is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow and Chartered Physicist with the Institute of Physics.