Stephen M. Hou has practiced patent prosecution for law firms in Boston and San Francisco, and is registered to practice before the US Patent & Trademark Office. He has been involved in three award-winning startup companies, serving as co-founder, chief engineer, and software engineer. Stephen received his law degree from the New York University School of Law, where he was an InSITE Fellow, advising startup companies and venture capitalists on patents, technology, and entrepreneurship. Stephen graduated Phi Beta Kappa with two undergraduate degrees in physics and electrical engineering (EE) and two graduate degrees in EE, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was a microsystems engineer and instructor, earning the President Paul E. Gray Award for Excellence in Research and the Goodwin Medal, MIT's highest honor for excellence in teaching by a graduate student.
Stephen 在波士頓和舊金山為律師事務所執業專利訴訟，在美國專利商標局均有註冊執業。 他曾在三家屢獲殊榮的新創公司擔任共同創辦人、首席工程師和軟件工程師的角色。 Stephen 於紐約大學法學院畢業取得法學學位，同時也是該學院的 InSITE Fellow。他為新創公司與風險資本家提供專利、科技、和企業家精神方面的諮詢服務。 Stephen 畢業於麻省理工學院（MIT）和 Phi Beta Kappa，獲得了物理學和電氣工程（EE）的兩個本科學位和 EE 的兩個碩士學位。就讀期間他還曾擔任微系統工程師和講師，並憑藉出色的研究獲得了Paul E. Gray 的校長獎以及 Goodwin Medal - 麻省理工學院研究生展現卓越教學的最高榮譽。
