Victor Cao, Ph.D.

Dr. Cao received his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees, and Ph.D., all in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 2005, 2006, and 2010, respectively.

He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award at 2010 IEEE International SOI Conference, the Best Student Paper Award at 2010 IEEE International SOI Conference, and received Best-in-Session Award at 2010 SRC TECHCON Conference. He has been awarded the SRC Global Research Collaboration fellowship, AMD/Stanford graduate research fellowship, NSF-Nanohub fellowship, and various scholarships. Most recently he received the Outstanding Contribution TPC Award at the 2013 International EOS/ESD Symposium.

Dr. Cao has co-authored various international journal and conference proceeding publications, including invited publications and talks. He co-developed four semiconductor interactive simulation tools with usage from over thirty countries for Nanohub, a premier global computational nanotechnology initiative funded by National Science Foundation.

Dr. Cao has been the Chair of 2013 International EOS/ESD Symposium Electronic Design Automation committee, and Co-Chair of 2013 International Reliability Physics Symposium ESD/Latch-up committee. For the past three years, he has served on the technical program committee for the aforementioned conferences, the International ESD Workshop, as well as foundry member on various industry EDA/ESD working groups. He is an Executive Committee member of IEEE Electron Devices Society, Santa Clara Valley and the Vice Chair of 2014.