Prof Jacob CH Phang received both his BA and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge in 1975 and 1979 respectively. He joined the National University of Singapore in 1979 where he is now Professor at the Centre for Integrated Circuit Failure Analysis and Reliability (CICFAR), Faculty of Engineering. His field of research is in integrated circuit  device failure analysis and reliability.

He has industrial collaborators in Singapore, Malaysia, Germany and the US. His research work has resulted in over 150 publications and 11 patents. He has presented and co-authored more than 20 invited papers at international conferences.

He is also Executive Chairman of SEMICAPS Corporation, an NUS spin-off company he co-founded in 1988 to commercialize the technologies developed at CICFAR for world-wide distribution. He is also a Board Member of Defence Science and Technology Agency, Singapore