image placeholder

Dr. Cheng-Wen Wu, a UCSB alumni, was recently appointed Director of Institute of Information and Communication Research of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan. ITRI is the largest government-sponsored research institute in Taiwan, with over 6,000 employees engaging in R&D in six diverse areas: Communication and Optoelectronics, Precision Machinery and MEMS, Materials and Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Technology, Sustainable Development, and Nanotechnology.

At UCSB, Dr. Wu pursued his M.S. and Ph.D. study with CS Professor Peter Cappello. His thesis research focused on CAD for high-throughput FIR and IIR filters and hardware design for testability of Iterative Logic Arrays. Since graduating from UCSB in 1987, Dr. Wu has been with Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He is a Tsing Hua Chair Professor, and served as Chair of the EE Department (2000-2003), Director of the IC Design Technology Center (2000-2005), and Dean of the College of EECS (2004-2007). Dr. Wu is a Fellow of IEEE, and received many research and teaching awards, and two best paper awards.

Links:
http://larc.ee.nthu.edu.tw/~cww/bio.html
http://www.itri.org.tw/eng/about/people/people-detail.asp?RootNodeId=010&NodeId=01041&ArticleNBR=1684