Boubacar Kanté is the inaugural Chenming Hu endowed Chaired Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California Berkeley. Prof. Kante received his Ph.D in Physics from Université Paris-Sud in Orsay, France and was subsequently a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley from 2010 to 2013. He then served as assistant and associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and a Qualcomm faculty scholar at UC San Diego before joining UC Berkeley in 2019.