In Memoriam
Ho Chung Huang passed away on January 18, 2026, at the age of 89 years old. He was born in Zhang Zhou, Fujian Province, China, to the late Kuan-Liang Huang and Su-Cheng Chang Huang. He was the husband of Hedy Huang, who survived him. In addition to his loving wife, Dr. Huang is survived by his daughter Audrey Huang, and her husband, Chris Bradford, of Cambridge, MA, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
Dr. Ho Chung Huang graduated from the National Taiwan University (NTU). He did his Master’s and Doctorate postgraduate studies in Electrical Engineering at Cornell University. For more than 50 years, Dr. Ho Huang performed outstanding engineering work at Monsanto, RCA Laboratories, and COMSAT. He then founded his own company, AMCOM Communications, a supplier of high reliability RF components. He was an expert in communication satellite transponders, in both design and fabrication. He has numerous patents, including one exploited by NASA.
Dr. Huang received the David Sarnoff Technical Excellence Award for his work on solid-state power amplifiers and their qualification for flight on RCA satellites as TWTA replacement. As head of the Microelectronics Division at COMSAT Laboratories, he led the design and fabrication of multiple GaAs MMIC circuits, some of which were space-qualified and flown for the first time on INTELSAT commercial satellites; he also was a key collaborator for first phased-array antennas for space. Dr. Huang became an IEEE Life Fellow Member. He was a great leader and mentor in the IEEE.