Yang Zhu

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EDUCATION Master of Engineering, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Sept. 2009 Feb. 2012

McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada GPA: 3.89/4.0

Bachelor of Engineering, Optoelectronic Information Engineering Sept. 2005 Jun. 2009

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China GPA: 90.17/100 (Rank: 1/80)

KNOWLEDGE Data Structures and Algorithms Programming Languages Microcontroller

PROFILE Operating Systems Digital Signal Processing Embedded System

Database Systems Wireless Communications Electronics System Design

Computer Networks Optical Fiber Communications

COMPUTER Languages: C, C++, Java, Matlab, SQL, Verilog, Assembly Language

SKILLS Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X

Software: Eclipse, MySQL, LaTeX, ADS, HFSS, Protel, SPICE, OptiSystem

Web Applications: Apache, HTML, XML, CSS, Java Servlets, JSP

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Software Online Hotel Reservation System (Team Work) 2008

Design Designed a hotel reservation website in Java, JSP and HTML using Tomcat.

Accessed database through JNDI and used Java Servlets to response to user request.

Software for Calculation of the Basic Mode of Laser Cavities 2008

Programmed an iterative algorithm for calculating the basic mode of cavity using C++.

Built GUI that is used to set system parameters and display calculated dynamic results.

E-Archive Management System 2007

Used Swing to design friendly UI and several functionalities such as login, search, and management.

Wrote MySQL scripts and connected to database using JDBC.

Text Segmentation 2006

Developed an algorithm to segment sentences written in Chinese into words using C.

Applied data structures (hash table and linked list) to search Chinese words in dictionary efficiently.

DSP Blind Equalization for Digital Communications 2010

Design Programmed various constant modulus algorithms for different modulation formats.

Studied the properties of each algorithm and proposed a novel blind equalization algorithm that can

be implemented in the frequency domain with fast convergence.

Post-filters for Speech Coding System (Team Work) 2009

Read the noisy signal from wave files, quantized it and modified its spectrum.

Implemented various post-filters to improve the signal-to-noise ratio estimation of the speech signals.

Hardware Heart Rate Measuring System (Team Work) 2008

Design Designed, built, debugged and tested the embedded system with sensor, amplifiers, shaping circuits,

8051 microcontroller, keyboards, decoder, driver and LED displayer. (Including analog and digital

circuit design)

Programmed in assembly language for microcontroller and designed PCB circuits.

Optical Communication Systems (Team Work) 2008

Designed the analog and digital circuits of optical transmitters and receivers.

Built the whole fiber communication system and verified its function experimentally.

Cyclic Redundancy Check for Computer Networks (Team Work) 2007

Programmed the serial and parallel realizations of Cyclic Redundancy Check in Verilog.

Designed the IC chip and digital circuits using ModelSim.

Lens Design and Manufacture 2008

Telescope System Design 2007

PROFESSIONAL Research Assistant, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

Wireless Communications, Telecom. & Signal Processing Lab Jul. 2011 Jan. 2012

EXPERIENCE

Applied interference alignment algorithm to minimize the interferences in wireless network.

Designed an iterative algorithm that achieves the maximum sum rate of MIMO multiple-access

channel.

Achievement: published one first author journal paper in IEEE Transaction on Communications.

Sept. 2009 Jun. 2011

DSP in Optical Fibre Communications, Photonic System Group

Applied optimization theory to design a digital FIR filter with chromatic dispersion characteristics.

Established a novel digital backpropagation algorithm for fibre impairment compensation.

Programmed the whole fiber communication systems in MATLAB.

Achievement: published one first author journal paper in IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology.

Microwave Engineering, Photonic System Group Jan. 2010 Jun. 2010

Built recirculating multipass architectures for real-time spectral analysis using Ansoft HFSS and ADS.

Measured the characteristics of microwave devices using network analyzer.

PUBLICATIONS

Journals [1] Yang Zhu, M. Vu, Iterative Mode-Dropping for the Sum Capacity of MIMO-MAC with Per-Antenna

Power Constraint, accepted by IEEE Transaction on Communications (6 pages).

[2] Yang Zhu, D. V. Plant, Optimal Design of Dispersion Filter for Time-Domain Split-Step Simulation of

Pulse Propagation in Optical Fiber, accepted by IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (17

pages).

[3] H. Yi, Yang Zhu, Z. Zhou, Nanotaper Mode Converter based on Silicon Pillar Waveguide, Chinese

Optics Letters, Vol. 7, Issue 4, pp. 312-314, 2009.

Conferences [1] J. D. Schwartz, Q. Zhuge, Yang Zhu, J. Aza a, D.V. Plant, Broadband Microwave and mm-Wave

Dispersion Using Periodic Structures, IEEE International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics, Oct.

2010.

[2] J. D. Schwartz, Yang Zhu, J. Aza a, D.V. Plant, Enhanced Ultra-Wideband Dispersion Using Chirped

Electromagnetic Bandgaps, Annual Research Review of the hSITE Network, Jun. 2010.

[3] Yang Zhu, H. Yi, Z. Zhou, Quality Factor Enhancement in Slow Light Nanopillar Waveguide, IEEE/OSA

Asia Optical Fiber Communication & Optoelectronic Exposition & Conference, Nov. 2008.

Selected McGill University Research Assistantship 2009-2011

Awards Excellent Graduate Thesis of Hubei Province 2009

Excellent Graduate Student 2009

Research Innovation Award (0.4%) 2008

People s Scholarship 2006-2008

National Scholarship by China s Ministry of Education (1%) 2007

Campus Tri-Top Students 2007

Professional Reviewers for IEEE GLOBECOM and International Conference on Communications.

Student Member of IEEE and Optical Society of America (OSA).

Activities

Vice President of McGill OSA Student Chapter 2010-2011

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