Wendy Fong-Silicon Valley Campus - Carnegie Mellon University

Wendy Fong

Contact Info:
Wendy Fong
Carnegie Mellon University
Silicon Valley
Building 23 (MS-11)
Moffett Field, CA 94035
Phone: 425-443-1656
Email: wendy.fong@sv.cmu.edu

Wendy Fong, Sr. Strategic Programs Manager

Education

B.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
M.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Scholar, Computer Science, Stanford University

Overview: 

As Chairman and President of the J Consortium, Wendy led 20 companies through worldwide review and voting to standardize the first International Java language specification. For this work, she won the top Standards of the Year award at Hewlett-Packard where she worked for 23 years as Standards Manager Embedded Systems, Internet Planning Manager and External Research Program Manager. Wendy was on the first process committee for the World Wide Web consortium and helped to set up HP Labs research science centers in China, Israel and in the US at Stanford, UC Berkeley and MIT. Wendy was also Campus Manager for recruiting and HP engagements at Yale and UC Berkeley. At Microsoft for the last 7 years, Wendy won the top Business achievement award for her work on standardizing mobile phone technology. Wendy was the Sr. Connectivity Planning Manager and Standards Manager Mobililty. Wendy joined Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley in September 2009 and is focused on growing the CyLab Mobility Research Center. Wendy is also co-President of the ORCHIDS, a non-profit charitable organization.