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Dr. Charles Tu (杜武青博士)

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Dr. Charles Tu (杜武青博士)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Charles Tu
  • Chinese: 杜武青博士
  • Era: -
  • Geography: 台灣台北
  • Core roles: engineer, scientist, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
  1. President of Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego (聖地牙哥台灣基金會董事長) 2017-2018

Education

  • McGill University — 1971 — B.S. 物理系
  • 耶魯大學 — 1973 — M.S. 物理系
  • 耶魯大學 — 1978 — Ph.D. 工程應用科學系

Employment

  • 美國加州大學聖地牙哥分校(UCSD)電機電腦工程系 — 2007-Present — 卓越教授
  • UCSD Jacobs — 2004-Present — 工程院副院長
  • UCSD 電機電腦系 (Department of Electrical and Computer — Engineering) — 1999-2003 — 系主任
  • 耶魯大學(Yale University)物理系 — 1978-1980 — 講師

Family

  • Wife: Linda Tu

Role in the Community

  • President of the Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego (聖地牙哥台灣基金會董事長) 2017-2018; UCSD 卓越教授 who, per 遠見雜誌 2019-04 profile, returned to Taiwan after half a century in the US and donated 80% of his salary to higher education ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/680-global-monthly-news-prof-charles-w-tu|TAH #680]]).

  • Held in the TAH corpus as a community figure across three records: profile ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-charles-tu|TAH #601]], 2015-09-19) and Who’s Who entry ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ota-247|TAH #247]], 2019-02-15).

  • Corpus re-sweep 2026-09-22 (slice 09212352-32): exact-name grep 杜武青 / “Charles Tu” over works+articles returns only his own TAH records and the two already-cited WHA 聯合聲明 republications below; loose “Charles…Tu” memoir hits all resolve to other people (Charles Ting, Tun-cheng Wang, Charles W. Tang) — SKIP, nothing new absorbable.

  • Co-initiator (共同發起人) of the 2021 南加州僑界 joint statement supporting Taiwan’s participation in WHA, alongside TAHS among the initiating organizations; his name also appears in the corpus republication of the statement: 2025 republication of the WHA 聯合聲明; the statement itself is also preserved in the corpus from its 2021 run: TJJ, 2021-05-17.

  • Corpus re-sweep 2026-09-23 (slice 09221200-27): exact-name grep 杜武青 / “Charles Tu” over works+articles returns the same set already absorbed above (own TAH records 601/247/680, WHA 聯合聲明 2021 + 2025 republications); no new memoir material. SKIP-with-reason: saturated.

  • Corpus re-sweep 2026-09-24 (slice 09230700-8): exact-name grep 杜武青 / “Charles Tu” returns the identical hit set (601, 247, 680, works index, WHA 聯合聲明 2021 + 2025 republications); SKIP — verified-saturated.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation

  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org

  • Corpus re-sweep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240600-28): exact-name grep 杜武青/“Charles Tu” returns the identical hit set (own records 601/247/680, WHA 聯合聲明 2021 + 2025 republications, works index); SKIP — verified-saturated.

  • Corpus re-sweep 2026-09-26 (slice 09250900-26): exact-name grep 杜武青/“Charles Tu” returns the identical hit set (own records 601/247/680, WHA 聯合聲明 2021 + 2025 republications, works index); SKIP — verified-saturated.

  • Corpus re-sweep 2026-09-26 (slice 09260400-20): exact-name grep 杜武青/“Charles Tu” returns the identical hit set (own records 601/247/680, works index, WHA 聯合聲明 2021 + 2025 republications); SKIP — verified-saturated.

  • Corpus re-sweep 2026-10-04 (slice 09300315-22): exact-name grep 杜武青/“Charles Tu” returns the identical hit set (own records 601/247/680, works index, WHA 聯合聲明 2021 + 2025 republications); SKIP — verified-saturated, no new material; hits-hash=c5b9bacfe1c2.

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