page_title: Stephen Hsu
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Stephen Hsu / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Theoretical physicist, Richard Feynman poses with then 19 year old, Stephen Hsu, at Hsu's Caltech graduation.
context_page_description: Stephen Dao Hui Hsu is an American physicist, who has previously worked as a tech executive and a university administrator.
context_section_description: Hsu was born and raised in Ames, Iowa. His father Cheng Ting Hsu (1923–1996), who was born in Wenling, Zhejiang, in what was then the Republic of China, was a professor of aerospace engineering at Iowa State University in Ames from 1958 to 1989. Stephen Hsu's mother was also originally from China, and Hsu had a grandfather who served in the National Revolutionary Army of the Chinese Kuomintang government. At age 12, Hsu took his first college course, in computer science, and he took physics courses at Iowa State while attending Ames High School.
  Hsu received a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1986, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. After his doctorate, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow and Superconducting Super Collider Fellow from 1991 to 1994.
caption: Richard Feynman and Stephen Hsu (age 19). 1986 Caltech graduation.
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