Mr Way Kuo is the President of City University of Hong Kong and University Distinguished Professor. He is a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering as well as a Member of Academia Sinica Taiwan, the US National Academy of Engineering and the International Academy for Quality.

He worked in the management team for Oak Ridge National Laboratory and served as University Distinguished Professor and Dean of Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, US. He received the B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering from National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan in 1972, and the Ph.D. degree in Engineering from Kansas State University in 1980.

He is renowned for his work in system reliability research and is acknowledged as a pioneer in designing and modeling reliability of electronics systems. He is a recipient of the IEEE Reliability Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also well-known for promoting university education on the basis of problem-driven research.