Prof. Evelyn Hu, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Materials and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. She is Co-Director of the California Nanosystems Institute. She is currently serving as Director of QUEST, the NSF Science and Technology Center for Quantized Electronic Structures. She also directs Nanotech, the UCSB component of the NSF National Nanofabrication Users Network.

Professor Hu's research has led to the development of high-resolution fabrication techniques for semiconductor device structures for both electronics and photonics as well as other advances in process-related materials damage, contact/interface studies, and superconductivity. In particular, she has focused on ion-assisted chemical etching techniques having high spatial resolution, photo-driven processing tuned to the unique optical properties of the materials, and passivation treatments to enhance optical and electrical properties of structures at submicron dimensions. She has studied the formation of high quality, heterogeneous interfaces, such as those between semiconductors and superconductors, oxide and semiconductor, or two non lattice-matched semiconductors.

At UCSB, she has served as Vice Chair (1989-92), and subsequently Chair (1992-94) of the ECE Department. She received the Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Faculty Award in ECE in 1989-90 and is a Fellow of the APS and IEEE. In 1995, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Engineering from Glasgow University. Before joining UCSB in 1984, Professor Hu worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, developing microfabrication and nanofabrication techniques for superconducting and semiconducting devices and circuits. Professor Hu has a Ph.D. from Columbia University and has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers.