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Exceptional scientist specialized in scientific programming, physics and mathematics, electromagnetism and optics, semiconductor physics and devices, submitted 2 patents and published 50+ scientific articles with 700+ citations including one Science report; • Excellent team player, self-starter, mentor, and technique leader; Participated in 7 multimillion R&D cross-disciplinary projects; Supervised 5 graduate students, and 3 contracts; • Dedicated electric engineer with deep experience in embedded system, firmware development, digital signal processing, filter design, robotics and control theory, data acquisition and analysis, noise analysis, algorithm design, wireless communication, electromagnetic wave, antenna and receiver, telemetry, real-time operational system (RTOS), integrated software development environment (IDE), multiple embedded interface protocols; • Experienced optical engineer familiar with optical fiber communication, laser and photodiode, phase/amplitude modulation and demodulation, EO modulator, distribute fiber temperature/acoustic sensors; • Talented software and firmware programmer proficient in C/Fortran/Matlab/R/OpenMPI programming, large-scale computational modeling and parallel computing; Wrote ~50000 lines of code and optimized 2 mega scientific software; • Self-motivated statistician with experience in R programming, linear regression, logistic regression, Bayesian classification, statistical and machine learning;

Sr. Hardware Engineer @ From October 2015 to Present (3 months) Principal Engineer @ (1) Developed next generation oil and gas reservoir description tool, proposed and delivered robust models for multiple high-temp sensors, proposed and delivered efficient data acquisition approaches, quantified channel cross talking effect experimentally, proposed and delivered high quality digital filter and signal processing and PID control system algorithm, proposed and delivered robust state machine for bootloader; (2) Researched and developed high-temperature fiber optics telemetry systems, optimized stability of overall fiber system, proposed and verified efficient signal denoising approach for coherent detection, delivered one IP; (3) Researched and developed advanced electromagnetic tools for deep metal corrosion detection, solved a last-more-than-2-months problem in 2 days, evaluated multiple system noises and quantified their impacts on SNR, proposed accurate scientific model for moving EM measurement, developed one IP on highly sensitive differential signal measurement apparatus; From January 2014 to June 2015 (1 year 6 months) Adjunct Professor of Physics and Optical Engineering @ Supervised one graduate student’s research on advanced electromagnetic device characterization, delivered one scientific publication and one conference post, all highly recognized by the electromagnetic material community; From June 2013 to December 2014 (1 year 7 months) Shanghai City, ChinaResearch Fellow @ (1) Applied harnessing nonlinearities for next generation material technology, proposed and delivered an efficient and new analytical model for nonlinear effect, delivered 3 scientific publications including one Science report; (2) Developed advanced numerical scientific software for enhanced plasma physics simulation and modeling, solved an important and fundamental problem and delivered the solution in one scientific article, optimized OSIRIS particle-in-cell software; (3) Developed highly sensitive microwave sensors for explosive substance detection, proposed and delivered one hybrid microwave-heat-radiation model; (4) Improved weak force measurement technique, verified surface patch effect on Casimir force measurement, delivered two highly recognized scientific articles; From June 2011 to December 2013 (2 years 7 months) Research Associate @ (1) Applied semiconductor nanostructure for advanced electromagnetic system design, proposed and delivered one easy-to-fabricate new electromagnetic material, delivered one scientific publication; (2) Designed one novel electromagnetic Lens, proposed and delivered the related fabrication approach, delivered one scientific publication; (3) Sensitive material and structural characterization using enhanced surface Raman spectroscopy, proposed an efficient method to boost surface Raman spectroscopy, identified the key underlying mechanism, delivered 3 scientific publications and supervised one graduate student; From October 2009 to May 2011 (1 year 8 months) State College, Pennsylvania AreaResearch associate @ (1) Advanced scientific software development for nonlinear physics simulation and modelling, proposed and delivered one robust and fast numerical algorithm for modeling nonlinear optical phenomena, published 5 highly recognized scientific articles; (2) Next generation solar photovoltaic system design and optimization, proposed a new physics for designing efficient solar cell; From October 2007 to September 2009 (2 years) Microwave Testing Engineer @ Developed next-generation hybrid microwave-optical wireless cellular communication system and component, including antenna, RF amplifier, fiber, optical transmitter and receiver; Optimized one microwave circuit, developed an efficient procedure to decrease circuit tuning and test time from 24 hours to one hour; From August 2000 to September 2001 (1 year 2 months)

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Optics and Photonics @ KTH Royal Institute of Technology From 2005 to 2007 M.S., Solid State Electronics @ Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of The Chinese Academy of Sciences From 2002 to 2005 B.S, Physics @ Yunnan University From 1996 to 2000 Yong Zeng is skilled in: 10-years of Fortran programming, Optics, Computational Electromagnetics, Physics, Laser, Plasmas, Semiconductors, Heat Transfer, Microwave, CST Microwave Studio, Mathematica, Matlab, Fortran, OriginLab, Linux, Mathematics, Spectroscopy, Experimentation, Nanotechnology