Chenming Calvin HU Distinguished Professor of Microelectronics University of California, Berkeley

Chenming Calvin HU is Distinguished Professor of Microelectronics at University of California, Berkeley. From 2001‐2004, he was the Chief Technology Officer of TSMC, the world’s largest IC foundry. IEEE, the world's largest technical organization, called him a “microelectronics visionary,… whose seminal work on metal‐oxide MOS reliability and device modeling has had enormous impact on the continued scaling of electronic devices”. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Academia Sinica. He is the recipient of the 2015 US National Medal of Innovation and Technology.

One of Hu’s most important contributions is a promising MOS field‐effect transistor (MOSFET) called the FinFET (which Intel called a "3D transistor"), for which he received the DARPA Most Outstanding Technical Accomplishment Award (2003). Hu also contributed to the creation of the BSIM (Berkeley Short‐Channel IGFET Model) series of compact models. Chosen by the industry as the first international transistor model standards, these models enable accurate circuit simulation for efficient integrated circuit design. Most major chip manufacturers have used BSIM model for IC products. A pioneer in transistor reliability modeling, Hu developed widely used CMOS device reliability models.

Among numerous prizes and awards, he was honored with the Aristotle Award by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), UC Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award, and the University Chancellor's Chair Professorship.

Professor Chenming Hu received his B.S. degree in from National University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of California, Berkeley. He is a board member of SanDisk and MoSys, Inc., and the non‐profit Friends of Children with Special Needs of Fremont, CA. He was the chairman of nonprofit East Bay Chinese School of Oakland, California. He co‐founded and was the chairman of Celestry Design Technologies Inc. from 1996‐2002 until it was acquired by Cadence Design Systems.