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Wed, September 25, 2024
The Council of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has endorsed the NAE 2025 Nominating Committee’s[1] recommendation of Tsu-Jae King Liu, dean and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, to stand as the sole candidate for the NAE presidency. NAE members will vote in March 2025 to elect a new NAE president to a six-year term beginning July 1. If elected, Liu will succeed President John L. Anderson, whose term will end June 30, 2025.
“Tsu-Jae King Liu is a superb nominee for president of the NAE,” said NAE Council Chair Erroll B. Davis Jr., retired CEO of Alliant Energy Corporation and past chancellor of the University System of Georgia. Davis commended Liu's exceptional qualifications, citing her extensive experience in leadership and expertise in research and academia.
The National Academy of Engineering is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. These independent, nonprofit institutions advise the government and the public on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and the world. NAE members are the nation's premier engineers, elected by their peers for their distinguished achievements. Established in 1964, the NAE operates under the congressional charter granted to the National Academy of Sciences in 1863. The NAE president is a full-time employee of the organization at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., who also serves as vice chair of the National Research Council, the principal operating arm of the National Academies.
A renowned member of the engineering community, Liu was elected a member of the NAE in 2017 “for contributions to the fin field effect transistor (FinFET) and its application to nanometer complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology.” She has served on various NAE and National Academies committees, including the Electronics, Communication and Information Systems Engineering Peer Committee, which she chaired. Liu is a 2005 alumna of The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering program.
Liu received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She joined the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as a member of the research staff in 1992 to research and develop high-performance thin-film transistor technologies for flat-panel display applications. In 1996, she joined the faculty of UC Berkeley, where she is now dean. Liu held numerous leadership roles on campus prior to becoming the College of Engineering’s 13th dean. From 2016 to 2018, she was UC Berkeley’s vice provost for academic and space planning, overseeing the campus’ academic program review process, space planning, and international partnerships. In the College of Engineering, she also served as associate dean for research from 2008 to 2012, and associate dean for academic planning and development in 2016 before taking the vice provost position on campus. In the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, Liu served as department chair from 2014 to 2016, electrical engineering division chair from 2012 to 2016, and vice chair for graduate matters from 2003 to 2004.
Liu's awards include the Ross M. Tucker AIME Electronics Materials Award (1992) for seminal work in polycrystalline silicon-germanium thin films; an NSF CAREER Award (1998) for research in thin-film transistor technology; the DARPA Significant Technical Achievement Award (2000) for development of the FinFET; the Electrical Engineering Award for Outstanding Teaching at UC Berkeley (2003); the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2010) for contributions to nanoscale MOS transistors, memory devices, and MEMS devices; the UC Berkeley Faculty Mentor Award (2010); the Electrochemical Society Dielectric Science and Technology Division Thomas D. Callinan Award (2011) for excellence in dielectrics and insulation investigations; the Intel Outstanding Researcher in Nanotechnology Award (2012); the Semiconductor Industry Association University Researcher Award (2014); the Semiconductor Research Corporation Aristotle Award (2016); the Chang-Lin Tien Leadership in Education Award (2020); the Asia Game Changer West Award (2021); the IEEE Electron Devices Society Education Award (2021); and the IEEE Founders Medal (2024). Her research activities are presently in advanced materials, fabrication processes, and devices for energy-efficient electronics. She has authored or co-authored over 500 publications and holds over 90 patents.
Liu is a fellow of the IEEE and serves on the board of directors for Intel Corporation and MaxLinear, Inc. She is also a member of the Industrial Advisory Committee formed in 2022 to advise the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on issues related to domestic semiconductor research and development in support of CHIPS for America.
Liu, who is married to Dr. David Kuan-Yu Liu and a proud parent of two children, remains dedicated to fostering excellence in engineering education and research. Her candidacy for the NAE presidency underscores her leadership, vision, and unwavering commitment to the engineering community.
[1] The members of the NAE nominating committee represent each of the 12 sections of the Academy and are elected by the members of each section. The three largest sections place two members on the committee, resulting in an elected membership of 15. The chair of the nominating committee is selected from among these 15 members by the NAE Council, the governing body of the NAE. In addition, one member of the council serves as its representative on the nominating committee, the NAE vice president and home secretary serve ex officio, and the chair of the previous year’s nominating committee also serves. No member may be elected to serve on the nominating committee more than once in six years. The members of the committee were as follows:
John L. Hennessy (Chair), Stanford University, Section 5 John J. Tracy, The Boeing Company, Section 1 Frances L. Ligler, Texas A&M University, Section 2 Linda J. Broadbelt, Northwestern University, Section 3 Michael C. Kavanaugh, Geosyntec Consultants, Section 4 Oussama Khatib, Stanford University, Section 5 Vicki L. Hanson, Association for Computing Machinery, Section 5 Chen-Ching Liu, Virginia Tech, Section 6 Stephen Y. Chou, Princeton University, Section 7 Louis C. Parrillo, Parrillo Consulting, Section 7 Stephan Biller, Purdue University, Section 8 Ramamoorthy Ramesh, University of California, Section 9 Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University, Section 10 D. Nathan Meehan, Texas A&M University, Section 11 R. Keith Michel, Webb Institute, Section 12 Robert D. Braun (immediate past Chair), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Section 1 Carol K. Hall (NAE Home Secretary), North Carolina State University, Section 3 Howard Rosen (NAE Home Secretary), BonVelo Ventures, Section 2 Cherry A. Murray (Council Representative), University of Arizona, Section 7