Dr. Chenming Calvin Hu is the TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor of Microelectronics in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Chief Technology Officer of TSMC from 2001 to 2004. Dr. Hu was the founding chairman of Celestry Design Technologies that was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2002. He is a board member of SanDisk and the non-profit Friends of Children with Special Needs of Fremont, California.
Dr. Hu is the author or co-author of three books and 800 research papers and is renowned for his innovations in the field of semiconductor technology. Dr. Hu is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Taiwan’s Academia Sinica.
He received his Bachelor of Science degree from National Taiwan University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in Electrical Engineering.