Xiaofei Zhao
Staff Process Engineer at Applied Materials
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiaofei Zhao is a results-driven process engineer with a PhD in Chemical Engineering and a decade of experience at the intersection of nanomaterials, semiconductors, and chemical processes. As a Staff Process Engineer at Applied Materials since 2021, he leads advanced fabrication and metrology initiatives, leveraging PECVD, RIE, and plasma-based processes to deliver reliable semiconductor thin films. His research background spans synthesis and stabilization of 2D nanomaterials, microscopy and spectroscopy analysis, and rigorous metrology, with prior roles as a Graduate Research Assistant at Texas A&M and a Research Assistant at Texas Tech. He brings a strong toolkit spanning Matlab, Origin, Aspen Plus, ImageJ, JMP, and CAD/CAE (AutoCAD, SolidWorks) to model, analyze, and design manufacturing processes. He is pursuing PhD work in bioinformatics and machine learning at Tsinghua University, signaling a growing focus on data-driven optimization that complements his materials expertise. Based in California, he uniquely blends hands-on industry execution with academic rigor, translating complex lab data into scalable manufacturing improvements.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Texas A&M UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Northwest UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at The University of Toledo
Chinese, English
Github Skills (28)
genomes10
bioinformatics10
dimensionality-reduction9
conda9
locality-sensitive-hashing9
genomics8
bioconda8
recipes8
package-management8
big-data5
cancer-genomics4
caller4
pong3
doi3
simulator2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zhaoxiaofei/fgclust
Oct 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
zhaoxiaofei/bindash
Apr 2018 - Dec 2018
Fast and precise comparison of genomes and metagenomes (in the order of terabytes) on a typical personal laptop
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 51 commits in 8 months
genomescomparisontypicalgenomicsbioinformatics
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