Professional Title:
Research Scientist | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Bio:
Zhi (Jackie) Yao (Member, IEEE) is currently a research scientist in the Computational Research Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Prior to this role, she was the 2019 Luis W. Alvarez postdoctoral fellow in Computing Sciences Area of LBNL. Before joining LBNL in Nov. 2019, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from Jan. 2018 to Sep. 2019. She obtained the M.S. degree in Jun. 2014 and the Ph.D. degree in Dec. 2017, both from the ECE Department at UCLA. She was recognized as the EECS Rising Star in 2019 by UIUC, and is the recipient of multiple awards, including 2023 LBNL Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement Early Scientific Career, 1st Place in Best Student Paper Competition of the 2017 IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), the 2015 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, and the 2014 Best Masters’ Thesis of UCLA ECE. Her research areas include microelectronic device modeling, mesoscopic computational materials, electromagnetism, magnetism, ferroelectrics and multiferroics. She intends to invest her interdisciplinary training to investigate the co-design of novel electronics and how such insights inspire new electronic applications and devices. Personal website: http://go.lbl.gov/jackiezhiyao .
