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, hardware-software codesign, low-power system design, nano-scaling computing and computational medicine. She has published more than 190 papers in these areas and obtained a number of research grants from both the U.S. government agencies and private industry. She received the CAREER award from U.S. National Science Foundation in 1997. She received the Best Paper Award from the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference in 2001 and from the IEEE Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures in 2009. Another paper of hers was named one of "The Most Influential Papers of 10 Years Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conference (DATE)".

She is currently Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing. She also served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on VLSI and ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems. She has served as guest editors for several different journals/magazines such as the IEEE Computer Magazine and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 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 also served or is serving on the program committee of a number of conferences such as Design Automation Conference (DAC), International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference )DATE), IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), and IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), etc.