Zhang Rujing was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Zhang Rujing graduated from Taiwan Province Provincial University with a master's degree in engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a doctorate in electronic engineering from Southern Methodist University. Visiting professor of Qingdao University of Science and Technology, executive consultant of Qingdao University of Science and Technology International Semiconductor Materials Innovation and Research Center. Outstanding scientist of Sino-German Doctoral Institute of Intelligent Technology. Honorary Dean and Chair Professor of Qingdao University. Worked at Texas Instruments for 20 years. He successfully established and managed the technology development and IC operation of 65,438+00 factories in the United States, Japanese, Singaporean, Italian and China Taiwan Province Province, and served as the president of SMIC. In June 2009, 5438+065438+1October 10, Zhang Rujing, the founder and CEO of SMIC, announced his resignation and formally entered the field of LED R&D and LED-related application products. In less than three years, he invested in four LED companies in China, covering LED upstream substrate materials, chips and downstream lighting applications, with an investment of more than 3.5 billion yuan, and devoted himself to the field of environmental protection and health. SMIC, founded by Dr. Zhang Rujing, has become one of the most famous schools in Shanghai and is in line with overseas education.