Franky So

Principal Investigator

Dr. Franky So  – Walter and Ida Freeman Distinguished Professor

Dr. So received his PhD 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.  Dr. So is currently a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, IEEE,  OSA and 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 80 issued patents and has 14 pending. He has over 140 publications and has a Google H-index of 55.