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Yuan Taur

Yuan Taur (Chinese:陶 元) is a Chinese American electrical engineer and an academic. He is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of California, San Diego.

Taur is known for his research in semiconductor device design and modeling, focusing on the structure and physics of transistors. He holds 14 U.S. patents and has authored or co-authored over 200 technical papers, in addition to coauthoring ''Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices'' with Tak Ning, spanning three editions released in 1998, 2009, and 2022.

In 1998, Taur was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the ''IEEE Electron Device Letters'' from 1999 to 2011. He was the recipient of the IEEE Electron Devices Society's J. J. Ebers Award in 2012 "for contributions to the advancement of several generations of CMOS process technologies," and received the IEEE Electron Devices Society's Distinguished Service Award in 2014. Provided by Wikipedia