Fellow
Prof. Fengbin TU
Assistant Professor, HKUST
Co-founder, HarbourTek
Fengbin Tu is an Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China NSFC Excellent Young Scientist, and a core faculty member of the AI Chip Center for Emerging Smart Systems (ACCESS, InnoHK). He received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, in 2019, with his dissertation recognized by the Tsinghua Excellent Dissertation Award. Dr. Tu was a Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California, Santa Barbara, from 2019 to 2022, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at ACCESS, from 2022 to 2023. His research interests include AI chip and computing-in-memory. His AI chips Thinker and ReDCIM won the 2017 ISLPED Design Contest Award and 2023 Top-10 Research Advances in China Semiconductors, respectively. He received the 2024 WAIC Yunfan Award (“Bright Stars”). He has published two books, Artificial Intelligence Chip Design in 2020, and Architecture Design and Memory Optimization for Neural Network Accelerators in 2022. Since 2024, Dr. Tu became a co-founder of HarbourTek, a spin-off of ACCESS targeting edge chips and systems for large-scale AI models.