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Shou-Gwo Wuu, CEO of Brillnics Inc, honored IISS Exceptional Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025

Zhubei City, Hsinchu County, Taiwan, June 13, 2025 — Dr. Shou-Gwo Wuu, founder and CEO of Brillnics Inc, received the International Image Sensor Society (IISS) Exceptional Lifetime Achievement Award to honor his contribution in mass-production-ready backside illuminated (BSI) and stacked CMOS image sensor technologies. Dr. Wuu received the award during the IISS award ceremony at the 2025 Int’l Image Sensor Workshop (IISW) on June 03, 2025, in Awaji Island, Hyogo, Japan.

This Award is presented by IISS to a member of the image sensor community who has made substantial sustained and exceptional contributions to the field of solid-state image sensors over the course of their career.

Since 1999, Dr. Wuu devoted himself to CMOS Image Sensor development in TSMC and successfully delivered Backside illuminated and stacked CMOS image sensor technology. The 1st commercialized Backside illuminated sensor was announced in Apple IPhone-4 in 2009. Currently Backside illuminated and stacked technology has become the mainstream technologies in CMOS image sensor production. Dr. Wuu earned 1st National Key Technology Innovator Award in 2011 as a result.

Dr. Wuu cofounded Brillnics with Dr. Junichi Nakamura and Dr. Isao Takayanagi in 2014. He works with his team to develop and deliver High-Speed and High-Resolution sensors and Digital Pixel sensors

Dr. Wuu served as a Subcommittee Member and Chair of “Display, Sensor, and MEMS” session of IEDM from 2002 to 2004, and a member of the technical program committee of IISS. He has authored and co-authored over 100 patents and published over 40 papers.