Steve Hsu

Dr. Stephen D. H. Hsu (born 1966) was named Michigan State University’s vice president for research and graduate studies in July 2012 following a series of other successful academic positions. He became an assistant professor at Yale University in 1995 before moving to the University of Oregon in 1998 where he became a full professor of theoretical physics. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 after receiving a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1986. He was a Harvard Junior Fellow and SuperCollider Fellow (Dept. of Energy) from 1991-1994.

He is a co-founder of SafeWeb, which was acquired by Symantec on October 15, 2003. In 2005 Stephen, along with SafeWeb co-founder James Hormuzdiar, co-founded RobotGenius, an Oakland based security software company. Hsu endowed a permanent undergraduate scholarship at Caltech in his father's name (Cheng-Ting Hsu Scholarship), using SafeWeb shares.

He also serves as scientific adviser to BGI (formerly Beijing Genomics Institute), and as a member of its Cognitive Genomics Lab.[1] [2]

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