# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chenming-hu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:49:12.396Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chenming-hu"
name: "Chenming Hu"
slug: "chenming-hu"
description: "Chenming Hu, 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."
tagline: "Electrical engineer working in the USA and Taiwan"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chenming_Hu_2023.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-07-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.68
  momentum:             0.1715550636413946
  historical:           5.732834666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "چنمینگ هو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenming_Hu"
    title: "Chenming Hu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenming_Hu"
    title: "Chenming Hu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%83%A1%E6%AD%A3%E6%98%8E"
    title: "胡正明"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%83%A1%E6%AD%A3%E6%98%8E"
    title: "胡正明"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenming_Hu"
    title: "Chenming Hu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5091418"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump