Franky So

Franky So received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He worked for Motorola and OSRAM Opto-Semiconductors for 14 years before he became a professor at the University of Florida. He was a Rolf E Hummel Professor of Electronic Materials in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. Since 2015, he joined the North Carolina State University and is currently the Walter and Ida Freeman Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.

Franky So from North Carolina State University, NC was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 for contributions to organic light emitting diodes. Dr. So is currently a member of the Odisha Society of the Americas (OSA), Society of Information Display (SID), and Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). He is the Editor-in-Chief of Materials Science and Engineering Reports and Associate Editor of four other research journals. He chairs the OLED Symposium of the SPIE Optics and Photonics conference. Dr. So holds over 100 issued patents.