Cheng-Wen Wu is the President of the Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology (STUST). He was born in Tainan, Taiwan, in 1958. He received the BSEE degree from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1981, and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in 1985 and 1987, respectively. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1988, where he is currently a Tsing Hua Distinguished Chair Professor. He was on leave from NTHU and served as the General Director of the SOC Technology Center (STC) at ITRI from 2007 to 2009, before he orchestrated the merger of STC and the Information and Communications Research Labs (ICL). He then served at ITRI as the Vice President and General Director of ICL from 2010 to 2014. In addition to general administration and leadership, he has initiated or helped initiate major R&D programs at ITRI that have significant impact on domestic and even international semiconductor and ICT industries, such as 3D-IC Design and Fabrication, Automotive Electronics, Key Technologies for Smart Handheld Devices, 4G/5G Wireless Communications, Basic Industrial Technologies, Big Data Analytics, Software Defined Networking (SDN), etc. During his tenure at NTHU, he had served as the Director of Computer and Communications Center, Director of Technology Service Center, Chair of EE Department, Director of IC Design Technology Center, Dean of the College of EECS, and Senior Vice President for Research. He also had served as the Chair of the IC Design Committee, Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA), and was on the board of Taiwan IC Design Society (TICD). He has served in the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in many positions in the past, and is currently an Executive Board Member. From August 1, 2019 to July 31, 2021, he took a leave of absence from NTHU to serve as an Executive Vice President for National Cheng Kung University (NCKU). He was the architect of the pioneering Miin Wu School of Computing at NCKU, which weaves together many independent disciplines in the existing colleges of the university, to make an inter-disciplinary campus centered on advanced computing technologies. Also, from July 2020 to Jan. 2023, he has been jointly appointed by ITRI as the Senior Vice President and the General Director of ITRI's Southern Campus, where he has served as the architect of the Rainforest Initiative for Compound Semiconductor, and subsequently the Chief Technology Expert of ITRI. He retired from NTHU and Joined STUST on Feb. 1, 2023.
Dr. Wu was the Technical Program Chair of the 5th IEEE Asian Test Symposium (ATS96), General Chair of ATS00, General Co-Chair of the IEEE Memory Technology, Design, and Testing Workshop (MTDT) in 2005-2007, and 2009, Organizing Committee Chair of the IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuit Conference (A-SSCC) in 2009, General Co-Chair of the IEEE Int. Symp. on VLSI Design, Automation, and Test (VLSI-DAT) in 2008 and 2009, General Chair of the IEEE IMS3TW in 2012, and General Chair of the NCKU Workshop on Future Computing in 2019 and 2020. He was the Steering Committee Vice Chair of ATS in 2003 and 2004, then Chair in 2005 and 2006, a 50th Anniversary Executive Committee Member of DAC in 2013, the Steering Committee Chair of ITC-Asia in 2016 and 2017, a Steering Committee Member of IEEE Memory Technology, Design and Test (MTDT) Symposium in 2006-2009, a Steering Committee Member of IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) from 2016 to 2022, and a Steering Committee Member of IEEE International Test Conference in Asia (ITC-Asia) since 2016.
Dr. Wu was the Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Electrical Engineering (IJEE) and subsequently Chair of its Editorial Board. He is an Editor for the Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA), and was an Editor or Associate Editor for IEEE Design and Test of Computers, IEEE Transactions on Computers, and IEEE Transactions on CAD.
In addition to a few best paper awards, Dr. Wu received the Distinguished Teaching Awards (twice) from NTHU, the Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineers (CIEE), the Distinguished Research Awards (three times) from National Science Council, the Industrial Collaboration Awards (twice) from the Ministry of Education (MOE), the Academic Award from MOE, the Continuous Service Award and Outstanding Contribution Award from the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS) Best Innovative Practices Session Award from TTTC, IEEE Computer Society, the Distinguished Industrial Collaboration Award from NTHU, the National Invention Award (Silver Medal) from Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), the TECO Award, the National Endowed Chair Professorship from MOE, the EE Medal from CIEE, the ATS 25th Anniversary Most Contribution Author Award and Most Influential Paper Award from TTTC, IEEE Computer Society, the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the ROC, the Distinguished Research Award of the Pan Wen Yuan Foundation, and the Industry Contribution Award of SEMI. He became a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society in 2006.
Dr. Wu’s research interests include design and test of low-power/high-performance VLSI circuits and systems, semiconductor memory test and repair, and symbiotic neuromorphic computing architecture and hardware design. He is a life member of the CIEE, a life member of Taiwan IC Design Society, a Fellow of the ROC Technology Management Society, and a Fellow of the IEEE.