Chenming C. Hu

Chenming Hu has served as an ACM director since January 2017. He has also served on ACM’s Board of Advisors since May 2016. Since 1976, Dr. Hu has been a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Distinguished Chair Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School since 2010. Dr. Hu also serves on the boards of Ambrella, Inc., a developer of semiconductor processing solutions for video, and Inphi Corporation, a fabless semiconductor company. Dr. Hu is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Taiwan’s Academia Sinica. Dr. Hu received his Master of Science degree and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Bachelor of Science degree from National Taiwan University, all in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Hu brings a deep level of experience in semiconductors and related technologies (including FinFET, which he developed in 1999), his experience as the Chief Technology Officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. from 2001 to 2007, and his current and past directorships at other public companies.