Yanqing Wu obtained BSEE from Fudan University in 2005, and PhD in microelectronics from Purdue University in 2009. He then joined IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a Postdoc and later as Research Staff Member. Since 2012, he joined Huazhong University of Science and Technology as a professor and moved to Peking University since 2019. His main research areas include devices based on novel channel material for logic, memory and RF applications. He has pioneered several research directions in ultrathin body semiconductors such as oxide semiconductor with record high performance and true-nonvolatile 2T0C DRAM cells. He has published more than 100 papers in Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Electronics, Nature Nano, IEEE EDL, TED and IEDM.