Dr. N-S (Stephen) Woo is Executive Vice President and General Manager of the System LSI Division of Samsung Electronics' Semiconductor Business. Samsung's System LSI Division consists of 3 major business areas - SOC, LSI, and ASIC/Foundry - and boasts a diverse product portfolio that includes display driver ICs, smart card ICs, application processors, MP3/PMP SOCs, and CMOS image sensors.

Dr. Woo first joined Samsung Electronics in 2004 as Executive Vice President and head of Mobile Solution Development at its System LSI Division, and in 2007 was appointed as head of SOC Research and Development. Since joining Samsung Electronics, Dr. Woo gained recognition for overseeing product development of MP3/PMP SOCs and application processors for car navigation systems, both which achieved number one market share globally, and for guiding the successful acquisition of an Israeli image sensor company in 2007. In May of 2008, in recognition of his significant contribution to System LSI's growth in key markets, Dr. Woo was promoted to General Manager of the System LSI Division.

Prior to joining Samsung Electronics, Dr. Woo served from 1999 to 2003 in several senior management positions at Texas Instruments (TI) related to wireless technologies, rising to the position of Business Director and General Manager of TI's UMTS Terminal Chipset Business in 2001. He was also a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) at TI. From 1996 to 1999 Dr. Woo served as President of Sansearch, a CDMA chipset solution company based in San Diego, California. From 1983 to 1996 he served as a research scientist at the Communication Research Division of Bell Laboratories, New Jersey. His research areas included computer architecture, parallel processing, and VLSI design.

Dr. Woo has published numerous papers and articles, and received Best Paper Award at the 31st IEEE Design Automation Conference in 1994. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), and a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.