Cheng-Wen Wu 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 ECE from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in 1985 and 1987, respectively. From early 1988 to Jan. 2023, he was with the Department of EE, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan. He had served at NTHU as a Distinguished Chair Professor, the Chair of EE Department, Director of IC Design Technology Center, Dean of the College of EECS, and Senior Vice President for Research. From 2007 to 2014 he took a leave from NTHU, serving as the General Director of SOC Technology Center, and then the General Director of Information and Communications Research Labs. In 2019 he took the 2nd leave from NTHU, for two years, serving as an Executive Vice President for National Cheng Kung University (NCKU). 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, and then the Chief Technology Expert.

    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.