Hong Fan

Hong Fan is a Program Director in the Office of Corporate Relations at MIT. She joined OCR in August 2016, bringing with her more than 20 years of international work experience across the semiconductor, consumer electronics, telecommunications, and higher education sectors.

Prior to joining OCR, Hong spent 12 years in the semiconductor industry in executive roles spanning strategic marketing, business development, corporate strategy, and product marketing at Analog Devices and MediaTek. During this time, she played instrumental roles in identifying emerging business opportunities related to wireless communication networks, smartphones, wearable devices, the Internet of Things (IoT), and medical devices and applications. She led cross-functional teams in defining and driving product and market strategies for businesses with annual revenues ranging from $30 million to $100 million.

Before entering the semiconductor industry, Hong spent six years in the telecommunications and electronics industry, leading engineering teams at Lucent Technologies and Watkins-Johnson Company. Her work focused on the development of digital signal processing, wireless communications, and microcontroller software.

Before coming to the U.S., Hong served as a strategic research staff member in the President’s Office at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, one of the oldest universities in China. She was the first woman to hold this highly selective position.

Hong holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. She has received numerous academic honors and awards, including the McKinsey & Co. Scholarship, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award, and the Shanghai Outstanding College Graduate Award.