Dr. Chenming Calvin Hu is the TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor of Microelectronics in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley. He was the Chief Technology Officer of TSMC, world's largest dedicated integrated circuits manufacturing company from 2001 to 2004. He was the founding chairman of Celestry Design Technologies that was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2002. He was the board chairman of the non-profit East Bay Chinese School, Oakland, CA.
He is the author or co-author of three books and 800 research papers and has supervised 60 doctoral students in the field of semiconductor technology. Dr. Hu is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica; a fellow of the IEEE and the Institute of Physics; and an Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Science Microelectronics Institute, and National Chiao Tung University.
In 1997, Dr. Hu received the IEEE Jack A. Morton Award for contributions to transistor reliability physics. In 1999, he received the DARPA Most Significant Technological Accomplishment Award for co-developing FinFET. FinFET is a promising future MOSFET structure and has enabled several corporations and universities to set new world record of the smallest transistor several times already. In 2002, he received the IEEE Solid State Circuits Award for the BSIM transistor model. BSIM is a industry standard for IC simulation and is used in the design of most of the products of the IC industry which has a market of over two hundred billion dollars. He has also received UC Berkeley's highest honor for teaching -- the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award.
Dr. Hu received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of California, Berkeley, all in electrical engineering.
He enjoys painting
with his sons, Raymond
and Jason.