UM scholar becomes member of China’s Science and Technology Commission

Ben U Seng Pan

Ben U Seng Pan of the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Science and Technology, who is also the deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI, became the first and only scholar from Macau to be appointed a member of the Seventh Science and Technology Commission of the Ministry of Education.
Prof U is also the first Macau- educated scholar to be elevated to the fellowship of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), states a press release.
The Science and Technology Commission serves as the Ministry of Education’s consultative organ on matters relating to higher education, science and technology. It also functions as a think tank for the government, providing services to higher education institutions, research institutes and other organizations that are in the field of science and technology.
This year, 90 experts have been appointed as members of the Science and Technology Commission, with 77 of them coming from renowned Chinese universities, including Tsinghua University and Peking University.