Currently a professor at the ROC's Industrial Technology and Research Institute, Dr. Hong was engaged in materials research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology seven years ago when he first heard about the Soviet diamond.
現任工業技術學院教授的洪堯本博士，七年前在美國麻省理工學院從事材料方面的研究；身為材料科學家，他對蘇聯研究成功的人造鑽印象相當深刻。