Resumes
Resumes

Zhiyu Yang
View pagePosition:
Senior Design Engineer at mSilica Inc.
Location:
San Francisco Bay Area
Industry:
Semiconductors
Work:
mSilica Inc. since Jul 2008
Senior Design Engineer
Marvell Oct 2005 - Jul 2008
Staff Design Engineer
Senior Design Engineer
Marvell Oct 2005 - Jul 2008
Staff Design Engineer
Education:
Cornell University 2001 - 2005
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer EngineeringSELECTED PUBLICATIONS Z. Yang, Information Retrieval and Efficient Communications in Sensor Networks and Wireless Systems. Dissertation. Advisor: Prof. Lang Tong. Z. Yang and L. Tong, âÃÂÃÂOn the error exponent and the use of LDPC codes for cooperative sensor networks with misinformed nodes,âÃÂàIEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 3265-3274, Sept. 2007. Z. Yang and L. Tong, âÃÂÃÂMultiplexing two information sources over fading channels: A cross-layer design perspective,âÃÂàSignal Processing, vol. 86, no. 8, pp. 1920-1932, Aug. 2006. Z. Yang and L. Tong, âÃÂÃÂCooperative sensor networks with misinformed nodes,âÃÂàIEEE Transactions onInformation Theory, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 4118-4133, Dec. 2005. Z. Yang, M. Dong, L. Tong, and B. M. Sadler, âÃÂÃÂMAC protocols for optimal information retrieval pattern in sensor networks with mobile access,âÃÂàEURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2005, no. 4, pp. 493-504, Sept. 2005. Harvard University 2000 - 2001
Master of Science, Engineering SciencesSELECTED COURSE PROJECTS VLSI Design, Layout, and Verification of a Viterbi Decoder, Spring 2001 Low-density Parity-check Encoding and Decoding over the Partial Response Channel 1-D^2, Fall 2000 Tsinghua University 1995 - 2000
B.Eng., Electronic EngineeringFirst place in Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest, 1999 Merit-based scholarships for four consecutive years, 1995-1999 Design and Implementation of a Real-time Multipath Fading Channel Testbed in FPGAs, B.Eng. diploma project, 1999-2000
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer EngineeringSELECTED PUBLICATIONS Z. Yang, Information Retrieval and Efficient Communications in Sensor Networks and Wireless Systems. Dissertation. Advisor: Prof. Lang Tong. Z. Yang and L. Tong, âÃÂÃÂOn the error exponent and the use of LDPC codes for cooperative sensor networks with misinformed nodes,âÃÂàIEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 3265-3274, Sept. 2007. Z. Yang and L. Tong, âÃÂÃÂMultiplexing two information sources over fading channels: A cross-layer design perspective,âÃÂàSignal Processing, vol. 86, no. 8, pp. 1920-1932, Aug. 2006. Z. Yang and L. Tong, âÃÂÃÂCooperative sensor networks with misinformed nodes,âÃÂàIEEE Transactions onInformation Theory, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 4118-4133, Dec. 2005. Z. Yang, M. Dong, L. Tong, and B. M. Sadler, âÃÂÃÂMAC protocols for optimal information retrieval pattern in sensor networks with mobile access,âÃÂàEURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2005, no. 4, pp. 493-504, Sept. 2005. Harvard University 2000 - 2001
Master of Science, Engineering SciencesSELECTED COURSE PROJECTS VLSI Design, Layout, and Verification of a Viterbi Decoder, Spring 2001 Low-density Parity-check Encoding and Decoding over the Partial Response Channel 1-D^2, Fall 2000 Tsinghua University 1995 - 2000
B.Eng., Electronic EngineeringFirst place in Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest, 1999 Merit-based scholarships for four consecutive years, 1995-1999 Design and Implementation of a Real-time Multipath Fading Channel Testbed in FPGAs, B.Eng. diploma project, 1999-2000
Skills:
Communications theory
signal processing
and channel coding/decoding
MIMO OFDM wireless communications
Transceiver architecture (RF/analog/digital) and system level ASIC design
Hand-on experience on RF/analog impairments and lab testing
Hand-on experience on circuit design and flow
signal processing
and channel coding/decoding
MIMO OFDM wireless communications
Transceiver architecture (RF/analog/digital) and system level ASIC design
Hand-on experience on RF/analog impairments and lab testing
Hand-on experience on circuit design and flow
Honor & Awards:
First place in Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest, Tsinghua University, 1999, Merit-based scholarships for four consecutive years, Tsinghua University, 1995-1999, Top 25 in Chinese Physics Olympiad, Xi'an, China, 1994