Prof. Ma is Raymond John Wean Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Co-Director of the Yale Center for Microelectronic Materials and Structures. Prof. Ma was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.

Research in Prof. Ma’s group revolves around the scientific and technological issues related to semiconductor devices, especially those involving MIS (Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor) systems. It overlaps a number of areas in materials synthesis and device physics. Most of Prof. Ma’s graduate students and research staff collaborate with a number of universities and major semiconductor companies in the United States and abroad.