Biography

Dr. Chiu is a researcher, educator, as well as an entrepreneur.

He worked as a Senior Staff Member in a Silicon Valley startup (1997-1999), in charge of developing data converter and various analog circuits for CMOS digital imaging products (the company was later acquired by the PixArt Imaging Inc. of Hsinchu, Taiwan). In 2016, he co-founded the Formula Microelectronics and served as the CTO and board director during his sabbatical.

As a professor, Dr. Chiu joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004 as an Assistant Professor, where he received the tenure offer in 2010. He is now a Full Professor and an Erik Jonsson Distinguished Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Texas at Dallas, where he directs of the Analog and Mixed-Signal Lab at the Texas Analog Center of Excellence.

He received or co-received many awards during his academic and entrepreneurial career, including the Jack Kilby Outstanding Paper Award from the 2004 ISSCC, the Outstanding Evening Panel Award from the 2017 ISSCC, and the Best Regular Paper Award from the 2012 CICC. He was also the Formula team leader and principal investigator of the Peacock and the Pearl River Programs (2016-2018).

Dr. Chiu was a Guest Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (2021) and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (2007-2009), and has served on the technical program committees of several IEEE solid-state circuits conferences including the ISSCC, VLSI-C, CICC, and A-SSCC.