Chenming Hu

Chenming Calvin Hu (Chinese: 胡正明; pinyin: Hú Zhèngmíng; born 12 July 1947^[1]) is a Taiwanese-American electronic engineer who specializes in microelectronics. He is TSMC Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the electronic engineering and computer science department of the University of California, Berkeley. In 2009, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers described him as a “microelectronics visionary … whose seminal work on metal-oxide semiconductor MOS reliability and device modeling has had enormous impact on the continued scaling of electronic devices”.^[2]

Chenming Hu
胡正明
Born	(1947-07-12) 12 July 1947 (age 77) Beijing, Republic of China
Other names	Chenming Calvin Hu
Alma mater	National Taiwan University (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD)
Awards	IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal (2009) National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2014) IEEE Medal of Honor (2020)
Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineering
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral students	Elyse Rosenbaum
Website	people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/

Education and career

Hu completed his bachelor's degree at the National Taiwan University in Taipei in 1968, and earned a Master of Science (M.S.) and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970 and 1973, respectively.^[2]

Currently professor emeritus, he has been a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1976.^[3]

He has made significant contributions in microelectronics research. He was one of the developers of the FinFET, a multi-gated MOSFET device, and was among the creators of the Berkeley Short-Channel IGFET Model family of MOSFETs.^[2] Since the 1980s, Hu has written extensively on the reliability of the silicon oxide layer in semi-conductors.^[4]

Hu was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to the modeling integration-circuit devices and to the reliability and performance of VLSI systems.

Between 2001 and 2004 Hu was the chief technology officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. He has sat on the board of several companies, including Inphi Corporation, FormFactor, MoSys and SanDisk; he was chairman of the board of Celestry Design Solutions, which he founded.^[3]

Awards and honors

• 1997: elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering^[5]
• 1997: IEEE Jack Morton Award, "for outstanding contributions to semiconductor devices and technology"^[6]
• 2002: IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award (for developing the first international standard transistor model BSIM)^[7]
• 2002: IEEE Paul Rappaport Award^[8]
• 2009: IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal, "for technical contributions to MOS device reliability, scaling of CMOS and compact device modeling"^[9][2][10]
• 2011: Asian American Engineer of the year award,^[11]
• 2011: National Taiwan University Distinguished Alumni Award,^[12]
• 2011: Semiconductor Industry Association Award,^[13]
• 2013: Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to EDA,^[14]
• 2014: National Medal of Technology and Innovation,^[15] given at the White House by Barack Obama in 2016.^[16]
• 2015: SEMI Award for North America, for the BSIM transistor family.^[17]
• 2016: Pan Wen Yuan Award, by the Industrial Technology Research Institute.^[18]
• 2020: IEEE Medal of Honor Award.^[19]

References

1. Perry, Tekla S. (21 April 2020). "How the Father of FinFETs Helped Save Moore's Law". IEEE Spectrum.
2. "Chenming Calvin Hu, Microelectronics Visionary, to Receive 2009 IEEE Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
3. Chenming Hu. Forbes.com. Archived August 10, 2008.
4. 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.
5. "NAE Members Directory - Dr. Chenming Hu". NAE. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
6. "IEEE Jack A. Morton Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 17, 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
7. "IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits Recipients". IEEE. Archived from the original on July 18, 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
8. "Paul Rappaport Award". IEEE. Archived from the original on 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
9. "IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal Recipients". IEEE. Archived from the original on December 6, 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
10. Mark LaPedus (June 17, 2009). Hu receives IEEE award. EE Times. Archived July 9, 2016.
11. "Asian American Engineer, Award". Retrieved 2019-01-15.
12. "National Taiwan University Distinguished Alumni Award". Archived from the original on 2016-10-16. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
13. "Semiconductor Industry Association Award" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-01-15.
14. "Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to EDA". IEEE. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
15. "Chenming Hu". Retrieved 2019-01-15.
16. "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.
17. 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.
18. "潘文淵獎歷屆得獎人" (in Chinese). Pan Wen Yuan Foundation. 2018. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
19. "Chenming Hu awarded the 2020 ieee medal of honor". Retrieved 2020-04-22.