Chenming Hu

Chenming Hu
Chenming Hu
胡正明
	Hu in 2023
Born	12 July 1947; Beijing, Republic of China
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	Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Nematic Liquid Crystal Optical Waveguides (1973)
Doctoral advisor	John Roy Whinnery
Doctoral students	Elyse Rosenbaum
Website	people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/

Chenming Hu (Chinese: 胡正明; pinyin: Hú Zhèngmíng; born 12 July 1947), also known by his English name Calvin Hu, is a Chinese-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 2014, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation cited "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.