Academia Sinica Academician Evelyn Hu was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on April 29 at the Academy’s annual meeting in Washington.
Dr. Hu is an accomplished scientist. She is a professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Materials at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Director of the California Nanosystems Institute. She is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from which she received a Lifetime Mentor Award. She has also received the National Science Foundation Distinguished Teaching Fellow Award.
Her research focuses on the formation of nanophotonic devices that may provide more energy-efficient lighting sources and facilitate new, faster computation and communications.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is the most prestigious scientific organization in the United States and perhaps the world. It boasts about 200 members who are Nobel Laureates. NAS membership is considered one of the highest honors a scientist or engineer can achieve. Members are elected to the prestigious academy in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The NAS is a private organization which was established in 1863.
The NAS currently has just over 2,000 active members. Dr. Hu was one of seventy-two new members to be elected at this year’s annual meeting.
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Dr. Hu holds a B.A. in physics from Barnard College, New York and an M.A. and Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University.
From 1975-81 she worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, developing microfabrication and nanofabrication techniques for high performance superconducting and semiconducting devices and circuits.
She joined the faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1984 where she was Associate Director, Center for Robotic Systems in Micorelectronics (1984-87), Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (1992-94), and Director of the Center for Quantized Electronic Structures (1994-2000).
She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers. She also holds an honorary doctorate of engineering from the University of Glasgow, UK.
