Congratulations to Prof. Vita Pi-Ho Hu for Winning the L'ORÉAL - UNESCO Award For Women in Science

Assistant Professor Vita Pi-Ho Hu (胡璧合) of Department of Electrical Engineering recently won the 2023 L'ORÉAL - UNESCO Award For Women in Science. Prof. Hu’s research interests include Ferroelectric FET, emerging memory, advanced nanoelectronics, low-power/high-performance SRAM, monolithic 3D IC, and design technology co-optimization. She has authored or co-authored over 100 refereed journal and conference papers regarding her research interests. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University.

Dr. Hu received the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on IC Design and Technology (ICICDT), the Postdoctoral Research Award from the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) in 2014, the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA) in 2015, Excellent Young Researcher Project Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in 2016, Exploration Research Award from Pan Wen Yuan Foundation in 2017, Excellent Teaching Award of the EECS College in NCU in 2018, MOST Young Scholar Fellowship in 2018, Outstanding Youth Award from the Electronics Devices and Materials Association (EDMA) in 2019, and Ta-You Wu Memorial Award in 2021. Before joining NTU, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Central University from 2015 to 2019. Dr. Hu was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, in 2017 (July-Aug.) and 2018 (July-Aug.). She has served as the technical committee member of the International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) (2018-present) and IEDM in 2022.

Prof. Hu’s publications in top international conferences and prestigious international journals in the field of semiconductors reveals their academically innovative and forward-looking research results, demonstrating the abundant research energy of her team.

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