Editing by Li Panpan

Ms. Huang Ru, a microelectronics researcher with multiple national awards, was appointed as the president of Southeast University, one of China’s influential technology universities on January 7.

Huang, 52, is the holder of more than 200 granted patents, with 38 of them being U.S. patents. She is the winner of the National Technology Invention Award, National Award of Science and Technology Progress, and many other awards and has been the leader of many major national projects, as well as a couple of international collaborative projects.

Her research interests cover nano-scaled CMOS devices, ultra-low-power new devices, and new devices for neuromorphic computing, emerging memory technology, and device variability/reliability.

Southeast University, located in Nanjing, Jiangsu province in southeast China, is best known for its facility and research in electronics, information technology, and communication engineering.  

Born in 1969, Huang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from Southeast University in 1991 and 1994, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in microelectronics from Peking University in 1997. She joined the faculty of Peking University in 1997 and became its vice president in 2019. She is elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015, then the youngest female academician and IEEE Fellow 2016.

Her tutor at Peking University was Wang Yangyuan, a leading figure in China’s microelectronics industry. After graduation, she worked hard at Peking University and became a professor and tutor for Ph.D. students in her early 30s.