She has also published highly cited work on deep neural networks, the CORDIC algorithm for trigonometric calculations, and clocking of unconventional computer architectures.
After a master's degree in 1984 in electrophysics at the Polytechnic Institute of New York, she completed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1989 at Purdue University.
She moved to the University of Notre Dame in 1996,[2] at that time and for several years later the only woman faculty member of her department.
[2] Hu was named an IEEE Fellow in 2016, "for contributions to resource management for embedded systems".
[3] She was named a 2021 ACM Fellow "for contributions to the design of power-constrained and real-time embedded systems".