Wenda Zhao

Wenda Zhao

Analog and mixed-signal IC design engineer in Apple Inc.

Wenda Zhao received the B.S. degree from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2016, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, in 2019 and 2020, respectively. He is currently with Apple Inc, Austin, TX, USA. His current research interests include power-efficient sensor readouts and data converters, ultra-low-power compressive sensing techniques for IoT applications. Dr. Zhao received May-4th Scholarship in 2015 and the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award in 2016, both from Peking University. He also received Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2018 and the IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award from 2019-2020. He is a reviewer of the Transactions on Circuits and System I, Regular Papers.

Interests

  • Analog and Mixed-signal IC

Education

  • Ph.D., 2020

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

  • Master of Science, 2019

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

  • Bachelor of Science, 2016

    Department of Microelectronics - Peking University