Wu Hanming

In this Chinese name, the family name is Wu.

Wu Hanming
Born	June 1952 (age 72) China
Alma mater	University of Science and Technology of China
Scientific career
Fields	Microelectronic technology
Institutions	Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	吳漢明
Simplified Chinese	吴汉明
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wú Hànmíng

Wu Hanming (Chinese: 吴汉明; born June 1952) is a Chinese microelectronics engineer and the current vice-president of the Technology R & D department of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation.

Biography

Wu was born in June 1952. During the Down to the Countryside Movement, he became a sent-down youth in his hometown and forced to work in the fields instead of going to middle school. After the resumption of National College Entrance Examination, he obtained a doctor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China. After graduation, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and University of California, Berkeley. He was a senior R & D engineer at Novellus Systems and Intel before returning to China. In 1993 he was offered a position at the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined a company in Alabama in 1995. In 1995 he was hired as a chief engineer at Intel. He returned to China in 2001 and became chief technology officer of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation.

Honours and awards

• 2008 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
• 2013 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
• November 22, 2019 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)