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Chenming Hu
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<h2 id="education">Education</h2> <p>Hu graduated from <a href="/facts/National_Taiwan_University/hDKUB8cQ">National Taiwan University</a> in <a href="/facts/Taipei/uxB89v54">Taipei</a> in 1968 with a <a href="/facts/Bachelor_of_Science/9n3gvDf7">Bachelor of Science</a> (B.S.), and earned a <a href="/facts/Master_of_Science/5xKwvXjm">Master of Science</a> (M.S.) and <a href="/facts/Ph.D./paJumdN8">Ph.D.</a> at the <a href="/facts/University_of_California,_Berkeley/MXVEjklr">University of California, Berkeley</a>, in 1970 and 1973, respectively.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="career">Career</h2> <p>Currently professor emeritus, he has been a professor of <a href="/facts/Electrical_engineering/YYXW1KLW">electrical engineering</a> and <a href="/facts/Computer_science/lN3pEyPz">computer science</a> at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1976.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p><p>He has made significant contributions in microelectronics research. He was one of the developers of the <a href="/facts/Multigate_device/YTeIYBvc">FinFET</a>, a multi-gated <a href="/facts/MOSFET/eTDJT2Km">MOSFET</a> device, and was among the creators of the <a href="/facts/BSIM/cLjHW2tm">Berkeley Short-Channel IGFET Model</a> family of MOSFETs.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> Since the 1980s, Hu has written extensively on the <a href="/facts/Reliability_(semiconductor)/wCrsJk8E">reliability</a> of the <a href="/facts/Silicon_oxide/vfWL2gNV">silicon oxide</a> layer in <a href="/facts/Semi-conductor/zFf3mGTE">semi-conductors</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>Hu was elected a member of the <a href="/facts/National_Academy_of_Engineering/6RCqfvXM">National Academy of Engineering</a> in 1997 for contributions to the modeling integration-circuit devices and to the reliability and performance of VLSI systems. </p><p>Between 2001 and 2004 Hu was the <a href="/facts/Chief_technology_officer/0JRJyEoL">chief technology officer</a> of <a href="/facts/Taiwan_Semiconductor_Manufacturing_Company/B4BdojRk">Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company</a>. He has sat on the board of several companies, including <a href="/facts/Inphi_Corporation/SG1LTpgu">Inphi Corporation</a>, FormFactor, <a href="/facts/MoSys/yJGCGH65">MoSys</a> and <a href="/facts/SanDisk/ExLEXvQB">SanDisk</a>; he was chairman of the board of Celestry Design Solutions, which he founded.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="awards-and-honors">Awards and honors</h2> <ul><li>1997: elected to the <a href="/facts/United_States_National_Academy_of_Engineering/6RCqfvXM">United States National Academy of Engineering</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li> <li>1997: <a href="/facts/IEEE_Andrew_S._Grove_Award/PSsuDBUG">IEEE Jack Morton Award</a>, "for outstanding contributions to semiconductor devices and technology"<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></li> <li>2002: <a href="/facts/IEEE_Solid-State_Circuits_Award/Ffut2DyS">IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award</a> (for developing the first international standard transistor model BSIM)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a></li> <li>2002: IEEE Paul Rappaport Award<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></li> <li>2009: <a href="/facts/IEEE_Jun-ichi_Nishizawa_Medal/Hxb40r71">IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal</a>, "for technical contributions to MOS device reliability, scaling of CMOS and compact device modeling"<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></li> <li>2011: Asian American Engineer of the year award,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a></li> <li>2011: National Taiwan University Distinguished Alumni Award,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a></li> <li>2011: Semiconductor Industry Association Award,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a></li> <li>2013: <a href="/facts/Phil_Kaufman_Award/Uk8kgShE">Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to EDA</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a></li> <li>2014: <a href="/facts/National_Medal_of_Technology_and_Innovation/yh1hThv4">National Medal of Technology and Innovation</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> given at the White House by <a href="/facts/Barack_Obama/76wUMgL1">Barack Obama</a> in 2016.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a></li> <li>2015: <a href="/facts/SEMI_Award/mSIvBLqY">SEMI Award</a> for North America, for the <a href="/facts/BSIM/cLjHW2tm">BSIM</a> transistor family.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a></li> <li>2016: <a href="/facts/Pan_Wen_Yuan/B3XbwmMJ">Pan Wen Yuan</a> Award, by the <a href="/facts/Industrial_Technology_Research_Institute/GujupTUz">Industrial Technology Research Institute</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a></li> <li>2020: <a href="/facts/IEEE_Medal_of_Honor/MKrETx8T">IEEE Medal of Honor</a> Award.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Perry, Tekla S. (21 April 2020). "How the Father of FinFETs Helped Save Moore's Law". IEEE Spectrum. <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-the-father-of-finfets-helped-save-moores-law" target="_blank">https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-the-father-of-finfets-helped-save-moores-law</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Chenming Calvin Hu, Microelectronics Visionary, to Receive 2009 IEEE Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved 2019-01-15. <a href="https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/2009-Nishizawa-Award-IEEE.pdf" target="_blank">https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/2009-Nishizawa-Award-IEEE.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Chenming Calvin Hu, Microelectronics Visionary, to Receive 2009 IEEE Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved 2019-01-15. <a href="https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/2009-Nishizawa-Award-IEEE.pdf" target="_blank">https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/2009-Nishizawa-Award-IEEE.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Chenming Hu. Forbes.com. Archived August 10, 2008. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100810064941/http://people.forbes.com/profile/chenming-hu/55007" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20100810064941/http://people.forbes.com/profile/chenming-hu/55007</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Chenming Calvin Hu, Microelectronics Visionary, to Receive 2009 IEEE Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved 2019-01-15. <a href="https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/2009-Nishizawa-Award-IEEE.pdf" target="_blank">https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/2009-Nishizawa-Award-IEEE.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>David J. Dumin (2002). Oxide Reliability: A Summary of Silicon Oxide Wearout, Breakdown, and Reliability. River Edge, New Jersey: World Scientific. p. 7. ISBN 9789810248420. <a href="9789810248420" target="_blank">9789810248420</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Chenming Hu. Forbes.com. Archived August 10, 2008. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100810064941/http://people.forbes.com/profile/chenming-hu/55007" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20100810064941/http://people.forbes.com/profile/chenming-hu/55007</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"NAE Members Directory - Dr. Chenming Hu". NAE. Retrieved 2019-01-15. <a href="https://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/Directory20412/30288.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/Directory20412/30288.aspx</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"IEEE Jack A. Morton Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 17, 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-15. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181117105217/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/morton_rl.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20181117105217/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/morton_rl.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>"IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits Recipients". IEEE. Archived from the original on July 18, 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-15. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180718001353/https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/bios/pederson-recipients.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20180718001353/https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/bios/pederson-recipients.html</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"Paul Rappaport Award". IEEE. Archived from the original on 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-01-15. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115132444/https://eds.ieee.org/paul-rappaport-award.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20190115132444/https://eds.ieee.org/paul-rappaport-award.html</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal Recipients". IEEE. Archived from the original on December 6, 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-15. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181206102517/https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/bios/nishizawa-recipients.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20181206102517/https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/bios/nishizawa-recipients.html</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>"Chenming Calvin Hu, Microelectronics Visionary, to Receive 2009 IEEE Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved 2019-01-15. <a href="https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/2009-Nishizawa-Award-IEEE.pdf" target="_blank">https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/2009-Nishizawa-Award-IEEE.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Mark LaPedus (June 17, 2009). Hu receives IEEE award. EE Times. Archived July 9, 2016. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160709165030/http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1171183" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20160709165030/http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1171183</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>"Asian American Engineer, Award". Retrieved 2019-01-15. <a href="http://www.aaeoy.org/past_awards_2011.html" target="_blank">http://www.aaeoy.org/past_awards_2011.html</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>"National Taiwan University Distinguished Alumni Award". Archived from the original on 2016-10-16. Retrieved 2019-01-15. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161016200154/http://newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en/news/read_news.php?nid=2621" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20161016200154/http://newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en/news/read_news.php?nid=2621</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>"Semiconductor Industry Association Award" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-01-15. <a href="http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/Semicon-Industry-Asso-Award-2011.pdf" target="_blank">http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/Semicon-Industry-Asso-Award-2011.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:18"><p>"Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to EDA". IEEE. Retrieved 2019-01-15. <a href="https://ieee-ceda.org/awards/phil-kaufman-award-distinguished-contributions-eda" target="_blank">https://ieee-ceda.org/awards/phil-kaufman-award-distinguished-contributions-eda</a> <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:19"><p>"Chenming Hu". Retrieved 2019-01-15. <a href="https://www.nationalmedals.org/laureates/chenming-hu" target="_blank">https://www.nationalmedals.org/laureates/chenming-hu</a> <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:20"><p>"Remarks by the President at Ceremony Honoring the Recipients of the National Medal of Science, and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation". whitehouse.gov. May 19, 2016. Retrieved 2019-01-15 – via National Archives. National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Chenming Hu, University of California, Berkeley, California. For pioneering innovations in microelectronics including reliability technologies, the first industry-standard model for circuit design, and the first 3-dimensional transistors, which radically advanced semiconductor technology. <a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/19/remarks-president-ceremony-honoring-recipients-national-medal-science" target="_blank">https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/19/remarks-president-ceremony-honoring-recipients-national-medal-science</a> <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:21"><p>SEMI Award for North America: About the SEMI Award Archived 2016-08-05 at the Wayback Machine. Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International. Accessed July 2016. <a href="http://www.semi.org/en/semi-award-north-america-1" target="_blank">http://www.semi.org/en/semi-award-north-america-1</a> <a href="#fnref:21" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:22"><p>"潘文淵獎歷屆得獎人" (in Chinese). Pan Wen Yuan Foundation. 2018. Retrieved 2019-10-23. <a href="https://pan.itri.org.tw/awards/PanWenYuan.aspx?nid=AFE9DF339642F786" target="_blank">https://pan.itri.org.tw/awards/PanWenYuan.aspx?nid=AFE9DF339642F786</a> <a href="#fnref:22" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:23"><p>"Chenming Hu awarded the 2020 ieee medal of honor". Retrieved 2020-04-22. <a href="https://ieee-vics.org/chenming-hu-awarded-the-2020-ieee-medal-of-honor" target="_blank">https://ieee-vics.org/chenming-hu-awarded-the-2020-ieee-medal-of-honor</a> <a href="#fnref:23" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>