ZHAO Yan

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Education

  • BS/MS, Central South University, Applied Physics/Circuits and Systems

  • PhD, Zhejinag University, Circuits and Systems

Research Directions

  • AFE/SoC Design for Electric Energy Measurement Integrated Circuits

  • Low-Power MCU Design, Dedicated Microprocessor/SoC Design

  • Design of Digital Computing Units/Computation Accelerators

  • Design of Analog Circuit Computing Units (Chaotic Circuits, Neural Network Circuits)

  • Research on Sampling Algorithms and Electric Energy Measurement Algorithms

  • Research on Power Supply Controllers, Parallelization of EDA Simulation Software, Transmission Characteristics of Partial Discharge Signals in High-Voltage Cables, Real-Time Clock Design, Delay-Locked Loop Design, High-Resolution PWM Circuit Research, etc.

Industry Experience

  • Nearly 20 years of frontline integrated circuit design experience, familiar with the full-process EDA tools, with experience in planning, defining, designing, testing, and industrial mass production of multiple integrated circuit chip products, with a total sales of over one hundred million pieces of the integrated circuit chips designed.

Academic (After 2020)

  • Large-signal two-quadrant multiplier circuit and large-signal four-quadrant multiplier circuit, 2025, invention patent (under examination), first inventor

  • Logarithmic circuit structure with temperature compensation and exponential circuit structure with temperature compensation, 2025, invention patent (under examination), first inventor

  • Integrated circuit design of a discrete memristive chaotic system optimized by the fixed-point specific processor with acceleration instructions,2024,NONLINEAR DYNAMICS (JCR1), first author

  • Fully fixed-point integrated digital circuit design of discrete memristive systems,2023,AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications (JCR2), first author

  • Research on application of variable universe double fuzzy algorithm in voltage filtering of aluminum electrolysis cell, 2021, Journal of Central South University (Chinese A), Corresponding Author

  • Kalman filter-based segmented aluminum electrolytic cell slot-like resistance acquisition algorithm, 2021, The Chinese Journal of Nonferrous Metals (Chinese A), Corresponding Author

  • Implementation of Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) Clustering Based Camouflage Image Generation Algorithm, 2021,IEEE Access (JCR2), second author

  • Implementation of Adaptive Real-Time Camouflage System in Visible-Light Band, 2021, APPLIED SCIENCES (JCR2), second author

Academic (others)

  • 5 authorized patents in the field of integrated circuit design and EDA technology, including 1 Chinese Patent Excellence Award. 2 patents related to power supply and cable characteristics. 

  • Co-authored and translated 2 books on integrated circuit design published by Springer and China Machine Press; co-authored 1 textbook published by Tsinghua University Press.  

  • Several other SCI and EI indexed papers; more than 15 patents as a co-inventor.

Teaching

  • University-level 'Outstanding Teaching Quality Award'

  • Provincial-level Educational Reform Project Approved

  • University-level 'Exemplary Open Classroom'

  • University-level Second Prize for Excellent Undergraduate Thesis (three times)

  • Guided students multiple times to win provincial awards in academic competitions

Research projects

  • Participated in the general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation and hosted multiple horizontal projects


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