Donor Gives $35-Million to Engineering School
October 24, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
Ming Hsieh, the billionaire founder of a fingerprint-identification technology company, has donated $35-million to the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Mr. Hsieh was born in China and educated at home by his parents, both college graduates sent to work on a rice farm during the Cultural Revolution. He transferred to USC from a university in China, earning both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering.
In 1990, he helped to found Cogent, a company that makes systems to electronically read, store, and identify fingerprints, with a fellow USC graduate.
The gift is part of the school’s $300-million capital campaign.
