Chongzhi “Paul” Zhao

*** ****** **., ***. ***, College Station, TX, 77840 979-***-**** ac6bzc@r.postjobfree.com EDUCATION

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Aug 2016- May 2018 Ø Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering GPA: 3.61/4.0 Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Aug 2012- Jul 2016 Ø Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering GPA: 87.2/100 SKILLS

Ø Soft skills: Attention to detail, Multicultural communication, Multidisciplinary teamwork Ø Technologies: Digital design, Power electronics, FPGA design, Controller design, Image processing Ø Software: C++, Verilog, MATLAB/Simulink, Cadence, LabVIEW, PSIM, PSPICE, Altium Designer, Microsoft Office, Linux

WORK EXPERIENCE

Internship at Xi’an Actionpower Electric, China Jun 2015- Jul 2015 Ø Increased the switching frequency of a converter which generates a trapezoidal waveform using PSIM simulator

Ø Worked with MATLAB to obtain optimal parameters for PID controllers in the circuit PROJECTS

Chip Floorplanning Project Feb 2018- Mar 2018

Ø Programmed in MATLAB to implement Kernighan-Lin algorithm for netlist partitioning Ø Used simulated annealing method to reduce the area and wire length in module placement LDPC Decoder Design Mar 2018- Apr 2018

Ø Developed in MATLAB a fully parallel LDPC decoder whose applications may include communications and storage systems

Ø Developed the fixed-point version of the entire design in Verilog and functionally verified it Digital Filter Design Feb 2018- Mar 2018

Ø Designed an IIR low-pass filter for an audio signal in MATLAB and quantized the coefficients Ø Implemented the design in Verilog and wrote a testbench code for verification Ø Synthesized the design using Design Vision and evaluated the performance in terms of power, timing, and area

8-bit Pipelined Adder Design Sept 2017- Nov 2017

Ø Drew schematic and layout from transistor level for 8-bit adder which met the set-up time and power consumption requirements

Ø Simulated the circuit in Cadence and resized the transistors along the critical path to optimize the delay Team Project on Medical Imaging Techniques Nov 2017- Dec 2017 Ø Reviewed classical and recent techniques used in MRI image reconstruction with partial K-space Ø Developed a wavelet thresholding algorithm to remove speckle noise from ultrasound B-mode images DSP Based Motion Control of Multiple Types of Electric Motors Jan 2017- May 2017 Ø Configured multiple modules involved to control a motor on TI DSP microcontroller Ø Controlled the motion of scanner head in a printer based on open-loop control of stepper motor Ø Conducted both open-loop and closed-loop control on DC machine and BLDC machine Control of DFIG during Fault Ride Through Sept 2016- Dec 2016 Ø Modeled the doubly fed induction generator system for unbalanced three-phase voltages Ø Designed a control scheme using PI controller and simulated the system in Simulink Senior Design on Multilevel Inverter using Sliding Mode Control Feb 2016- Jun 2016 Ø Designed a control scheme based on sliding mode control and performed the simulation in Simulink Ø Modified the control scheme to balance neutral point voltage and eliminate dead-time effect Solar PV Inverter Design Project Jul 2015- Dec 2015 Ø Designed PCB for a photovoltaic grid-connected inverter using Altium Designer and conducted simulation in Simulink

Ø Programmed TI DSP in order to generate the desired PWM signals HONORS

Ø Third place in IEEE MiniMAKE Competition Designing Rube Goldberg Machine 2017 Ø Xi’an Jiaotong University Siyuan Scholarship 2014 Ø First prize in Shaanxi Province in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2014 Ø Xi’an Jiaotong University Siyuan Scholarship 2013 HOBBIES

Strong interest in world geography and cultures, Understanding the present world by learning history, Snow skiing, Cycling

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Oasis (International Student Service Group)

Ø Helping affected households on relief trips to Houston after Hurricane Harvey WORK AUTHORIZATION

Eligible to work in the U.S. with Optional Practical Training (OPT)