Carlos H. Diaz has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He received B.S. in EE and Physics and M.S. degree in EE from Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota-Colombia, and Ph.D. degree in EE from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in 1998 where he is currently Senior Director of Corporate Research. Prior to joining TSMC, he was a member of the technical staff at Hewlett-Packard Co. He has published over 100 journal and conference papers, holds over 100 US patents, and published one book. He served in the IEEE IEDM Technical and Executive Committees and the technical program committees for the IEEE VLSI, SSDM, SISPAD, IRPS, and EOS/ESD international conferences / symposiums. He also served at the International Roadmap for Semiconductors executive committee. Dr. Diaz was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2008 for his contributions to deep-submicron foundry technology. The 2011 Annual Innovation Breakthrough Award, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan R.O.C., was conferred to TSMC's 28nm logic technology led by Dr. Y.J. Mii, Dr. Burn J. Lin, and Dr. Carlos H. Diaz. He was named the recipient of the 2016 IEEE Andrew Grove Award for sustained contributions to and leadership in foundry advanced CMOS logic transistor technology.