Carlos H. Diaz holds a PhD in EE from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is Senior Director in Research and Development, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
He is an IEEE Fellow and the recipient of the 2016 IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award for sustained contributions to and leadership in foundry advanced CMOS logic transistor technology. In 2011, he was co-recipient of the Annual Innovation Breakthrough Award, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan R.O.C., conferred to TSMC's 28nm logic technology. He has published over 100 technical papers, holds 116 US patents, and published one book.