Xiaobo Sharon Hu is a professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. She also holds a joint appointment in the department of Electrical Engineering at the same university. She received B.S. degree from Tianjin University, China, M.S. degree from Polytechnic University of New York, and Ph.D. degree from Purdue University. She worked for General Motors Research Labs for almost 4 years before she started her academic career. Between 1993 and 1996, she was an assitant professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.

Her research interests include real-time embedded systems, low-power system design, hardware-software codesign, nano-scaling computing, and computational medicine. She has published more than 130 refereed journal and conference papers in these areas and obtained a number of research grants from both the U.S. federal agencies and private industry. She received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in 1997. A paper co-authored by her and her student, Gang Quan, received the Best Paper Award from the 38th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference in 2001.

She is currently an Associated Editor for ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems and ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. She also served as an Associated Editor for IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, a Guest Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in 2004 and for IEEE Computer Magazine in 2003. She was the Technical Program Co-Chair of the 9th International Symposium on Hardware/Software Codesign (CODES'2001) and the General Co-Chair of the same conference in 2002. She has been invited to serve on the program committees of a number of conferences such as DAC (Design Automation Conference), ICCAD (International Conference on Computer-Aided Design), DATE (Design Automation and Test in Europe), Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), RTSS (Real-Time Systems Symposium), ICCD (Internation Conference on Computer Design, etc.