Honghong Tinn is the author of Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan’s Computing Industry (MIT Press, 2025). She is a 2025–2027 McKnight Land-Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Her research interests include the history of computing, the Cold War, and the semiconductor industry. Tinn's work has appeared in Technology and Culture, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Osiris, and East Asian Science, Technology and Society. She received her PhD in Science & Technology Studies from Cornell University and was an elected member of the Executive Council of the Society for the History of Technology.
