Xiaofei Zhao
Staff Process Engineer at Applied Materials
California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolXiaofei Zhao is a Staff Process Engineer at Applied Materials with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and a decade of experience bridging semiconductor process development and 2D materials research. She combines hands-on process engineering at a leading equipment manufacturer with long-standing academic research roles at Texas A&M and Texas Tech, delivering both experimental rigor and manufacturable solutions. Her background spans device-relevant materials science, automation, and bioinformatics/machine learning exposure from graduate work at Tsinghua, enabling data-driven optimization of process flows. Based in California, she is adept at translating complex lab-scale findings into scalable production processes and tooling improvements. Notably, she progressed from an internship to a staff role at Applied Materials, reflecting strong technical impact and rapid applied engineering growth.
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 (26)
genomes10
bioinformatics10
dimensionality-reduction9
conda9
locality-sensitive-hashing9
genomics8
bioconda8
package-management8
big-data5
cancer-genomics4
caller4
pong3
doi3
simulator2
simulation2
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
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.