# Ching Wu

> Ching Wu is the founder, president and CEO of Excellims Corporation, an Acton, Massachusetts instrument company focused on high-performance ion mobility spectrometry. After leading research in GE Security's chemical, biological and explosives detection operation, Wu founded Excellims in 2005 and pursued a practical idea across security, pharmaceutical manufacturing and research: analytical performance should travel to the point where a measurement is needed.

- **Role:** Founder, President and CEO at Excellims Corporation
- **Organizations:** Excellims Corporation, GE Security
- **Known for:** Founded Excellims Corporation in 2005., Pioneered Excellims' development of high-performance ion mobility spectrometry., Led and contributed to security-focused ion mobility systems before founding Excellims.

## Career timeline

- **1998** — Co-authored research describing an electrospray ionization high-resolution ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry instrument.
- **Before 2005** — Served as a research leader in GE Security's chemical, biological and explosives detection operation.
- **2005** — Founded Excellims Corporation to develop ion mobility and mass spectrometry technology.
- **2014** — Excellims began an exclusive collaboration supplying high-performance ion mobility technology for use with Thermo Fisher Scientific mass spectrometers.
- **2016** — Excellims' high-performance ion mobility spectrometry technology received Frost & Sullivan's Global Enabling Technology Leadership Award.
- **2018** — Delivered a lecture on ion mobility spectrometry and mass spectrometry at a forum co-hosted by Peking University units in Beijing.
- **2020** — Explained Excellims' shift from security detection toward point-of-analysis instruments in a SelectScience interview; Excellims also received a 2020 Analytical Scientist Innovation Award.
- **2022** — Was named inventor on newly granted U.S. patents covering practical ion mobility detection and intelligently controlled spectrometer systems.

## Achievements

- Founded Excellims Corporation in 2005.
- Pioneered Excellims' development of high-performance ion mobility spectrometry.
- Led and contributed to security-focused ion mobility systems before founding Excellims.
- Named inventor or co-inventor on numerous patents involving ion mobility spectrometry, sample introduction, drift tubes and combined spectrometer systems.
- Helped establish a 2014 technology collaboration between Excellims and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
- Led Excellims during recognition of its technology by Frost & Sullivan in 2016 and The Analytical Scientist in 2020.

## Latest updates

- **2022-10** — A U.S. patent naming Wu as inventor for practical ion mobility spectrometer apparatus and chemical or biological detection was granted.
- **2022-08** — A U.S. patent naming Wu and Mark A. Osgood as inventors for intelligently controlled spectrometer methods and apparatus was granted.
- **2020-09** — Wu discussed Excellims' history, high-performance IMS and the company's point-of-analysis direction in a SelectScience interview.

## Links

- Website: https://excellims.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ching-wu-b2118a2
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ExcellimsCorp
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_iYWhSoJW4

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