Design Power

Chao Yu

** ******* ******, #* * Quincy, MA ***** * 617-***-****, **.***@*****.***.***

EDUCATION

Sept 2010 - Aug 2012 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Boston, MA, USA

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering GPA 3.6/4.0

Master’s Project: Design of Flickering Light LED Driver for Health Related Studies

Research Advisor: Prof. Brad Lehman, NSF Presidential(White House) Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of

IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics, and previous Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on

Automatic Control, and Chair of IEEE Standards PAR1789 Group (LED Lighting)

Sept 2006 - Jun 2010 NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS Nanjing, China

B.S. in Electrical Engineering of Civil Aviation

CAREER INTERESTS

Power Electronics, Embedded System, Power System, Motor Control, Control and Signal Process

EXPERIENCES

Jan 2012- Present NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Boston, MA, USA

Graduate Research Assistant:

Worked on the research and design of low power DC/DC converters.

Responsible for the design of Flickering light LED driver based on Microchip dspic33 DSP.

Responsible for the User-interface design of electronic system on a PC.

Working cooperatively on the design of Balance of System Unit with PowerFilm and NEU team.

Jan 2010 - May 2010 SUNRISE POWER CONTROL COMPANY Nanjing, China

Part-time Job & Intern:

Assisted research and development group with design of low power DC-DC converters.

Completed programming work on TI and Microchip DSP for DC/DC converters and inverters.

Collaborated with senior engineers to troubleshoot and debug existed power amplifiers and

digital power supply board.

Simulated new designs using PSpice and NI Multisim.

Responsible for the design, PCB layout and soldering of simple boost converters.

Jun 2009 - Aug 2009 SINOPEC YANGZI PETROLEUM CORP. Nanjing, China

Electrical Engineering Intern in IT department

Troubleshoot and debug telecommunication instruments with senior engineers ?guidance.

Assisted to write the manual and instruction of new production.

Jul 2008 - Dec 2009 NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS Nanjing, China

Undergraduate Research Assistance

Collaborated with a group of graduate students to design an improved Aircraft Fire Alarm

System, my work is microcontroller programming and firmware design.

Assisted faculties with research and development on vehicle reversing system.

Responsible for the project of unmanned robotic car for fire detection.

SKILLS

Programming skills: Proficiency in C, C++, Some experience of Java, Assembly, Verilog

Application: MATLAB, Visual Studio, PSpice, Protel DXP, OrCad, Labview

Technical: Oscilloscopes, Microcontrollers, DC-DC converter design, PCB layout, Soldering,

UART, RS 232, TI DSP, Microchip DSP

THEORY AND COURSES

Power Electronics, Linear System Analysis, Modern Signal Process, Fundamental of Computer

Engineering, Analog IC Design, Control system, Electric Drive, System Identification and Adaptive

control, Electric Machinery, Navigation and Position System, Digital and Logical Design

WORK STATUS

Eligible to work in US (29 Months OPT with current F1 Visa)

ACTIVITIES

Mandarin Chinese teacher in Chung Yee Chinese School Quincy, MA

Hobbies: Basketball, Soccer, History, Geography, Sports Car

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