For over 20 years, Dr. Hu has been an influential ambassador from the academic community to the design automation community. Dr. Hu’s has made outstanding research and development contributions in low-power system design, circuits and architectures for emerging technologies, real-time embedded systems, and hardware-software co-design. She has published more than 450 papers. Most were presented at the top design automation and real-time systems conferences including DAC, DATE, RTSS, RTAS, and ECRTS. Dr. Hu’s three most cited papers, two from DAC and one from TVLSI are on real-time scheduling and are responsible for over 1,100 citations alone. Her work has 11,000 citations in total. Dr. Hu is an ACM and IEEE Fellow and has received three best paper awards to date. She has recently joined the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a rotating Program Director in the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations.