Nan Zhang
Sr Staff Engineer at Qualcomm
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolNan Zhang is a Sr. Staff Engineer in San Diego with over 8 years of experience designing and optimizing high-volume cellular modem products (over 100M units) from concept to production. She combines deep DSP and algorithm expertise with practical mapping to SIMD, ASIC, and GPU platforms, and has led work ranging from LTE/HSPA/5G modem firmware to PA power-efficiency and human-presence detection in mmWave. Her background spans major chipset and handset vendors (Qualcomm, Samsung, Huawei, TI, Nokia), giving her a rare end-to-end perspective on wireless modem architecture and implementation. She also brings machine learning and deep learning techniques into signal-processing pipelines, notably applying CUDA for modem algorithm exploration and optimizing pre-distortion kernels for real-world power savings. Not obvious from titles alone: she has repeatedly translated research-grade algorithms into mass-production constraints, balancing algorithmic performance with silicon and SIMD realities.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., EE, Ph.D., EE at The George Washington UniversityBS, BS at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyMS, MS at Chinese Academy of SciencesGithub contributions (3)
legendzhangn/blog
Aug 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
legendzhangn/GyroBall
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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