Shijie Yan
Optical Modeling Engineer at Apple
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolShijie Yan is an Optical Modeling Engineer with eight years of experience developing efficient, accurate simulations of light propagation in complex domains, currently applying that expertise at Apple in Cupertino. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University and brings a strong research background from five years as a research assistant there, complemented by practical circuit simulation R&D experience from a Cadence internship. Shijie specializes in marrying rigorous physical modeling with computational techniques to enable scalable optical simulations for product-grade systems. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who turns theoretical optics into robust, usable tools—balancing precision, performance, and manufacturability considerations.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Engineering at Southeast UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering at Northeastern University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (36)
photon10
pascal10
simulator10
transport10
matlab10
cuda10
monte-carlo10
docker-image9
mmc9
dockerfile9
3d9
docker-container9
docker-compose8
gpu8
photonics8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ShijieYan/mcxcl
Feb 2019 - Oct 2023
Monte Carlo eXtreme for OpenCL (MCXCL)
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
monte-carlocarloextremeopencl
ShijieYan/mcx
Apr 2018 - Jun 2024
Monte Carlo eXtreme (MCX) - GPU-accelerated photon transport simulator
Contributions:4 PRs, 181 pushes, 18 branches in 6 years 2 months
cudaextremegpuacceleratedphoton
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