Hello! My name is Yicheng Zhu. I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, advised by Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski. Thanks for visiting!
406 Cory Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Research Interests
I'm broadly interested in enabling technologies for high-performance electric power conversion, including system architectures, converter topologies, passive components, modeling and simulation, and control techniques. My research work at UC Berkeley focuses on circuit topologies, control techniques, and analytical models of high-performance hybrid switched-capacitor converters with applications in data center power delivery. Before joining the Pilawa Research Group and the Berkeley Power and Energy Center (BPEC) at UC Berkeley, I received my B.Eng. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University in 2017 and 2020, respectively, where I worked on the discrete state event-driven (DSED) simulation of power electronic systems and active gate drivers for SiC MOSFETs. Please see my research and publications for more information.
Fun fact: I was born on the first World Teachers’ Day, and my dream is to become a teacher :)
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Aug. 2020 -- Present
Advisor: Prof. Robert Pilawa-Podgurski
Awards: Best Paper Award at 2023 Open Compute Project (OCP) Future Technologies Symposium
COMPEL 2023 Best Paper Award
NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship (2023-2024)
Berkeley Fellowship (2020-2022)
Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical Engineering Sept. 2017 -- July 2020
Advisor: Prof. Zhengming Zhao
Thesis: Analysis and Control of SiC MOSFET Switching Transients
Awards: IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Outstanding Student Scholarship
Graduate with Distinction
Tsinghua Scholarship of Academic Excellence
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Electrical Engineering and Automation Aug. 2013 -- July 2017
Awards: Graduate with Distinction
Tsinghua Scholarship of Academic Excellence
Grand Prize of the 34\(^{\rm{th}}\) Tsinghua Challenge Cup Student Research Competition (Team leader)
Tsinghua Outstanding Student Leader Award