About Me

Education Background

Bachelor of Engineering, Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, 2009 - 2013

A program offered by both the School of Science and the School of Information Technology, with the first two years in the Department of Physics
Received undergraduate thesis excellency award

Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 2013 - 2014

Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2014 - 2020

Ph.D. advisor: Kenneth L. Shepard
Worked on various projects focusing on bioelectronics, including medical ultrasound, microbiology, pH monitoring, etc.
Focusing on low power, miniaturized circuits and their applications in bioelectronics
… and be one of the few people who read my Ph.D. thesis

I call myself a full-stack engineer. And the stack builds from device fabrication, through hardware design, all the way up to software design.

Computer-Aided Design Tools for Hardware: Cadence Virtuoso, Cadence Innovus, Cadence Genus, Synopsys SiliconSmart, Synopsys Design Compiler, Synopsys Library Compiler, Mentor Graphics ModelSim, Xilinx Vivado (ISE), Verilator, Cadence Allegro, Altium Designer
Hardware Description Language: Verilog, System Verilog
Device Fabrication: Photolithography, electron beam deposition, thermal deposition, chemical etching
Semiconductor Packaging: Dicing, flip-chip packaging, wirebonding
Selected Programming and Scripting Language: C, C#, C++, Python, Java, Rust, Swift, Lisp, SKILL, LaTeX, GLSL, Matlab, Lua, JSON, YAML, TOML, HTML, CSS, shell (bash, zsh, csh, etc.)
Software Frameworks: OpenGL, OpenCV, Qt, XNA, Unity
Language: Chinese (Mandarin) and English