Summary
Yifei Yang is a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer and PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering with eight years of experience driving MRAM and advanced memory material development from lab to fab. They combine hands-on thin-film deposition, device fabrication and characterization with data-driven process integration—having led a 16-member team that achieved a 300% performance improvement in a high-efficiency memory material. Yifei has industry-proven skills in lithography, sputtering, ALD/CVD, electrical testing, and automated analysis tools (Python, MATLAB, JMP), and built a CUDA-based macrospin simulator to accelerate device modeling. Their internships at Seagate and Micron yielded measurable yield and overlay improvements and automated I–V/C–V extraction workflows, showing an ability to translate research innovations into manufacturable process gains. Based in Minneapolis, they bridge deep materials physics and practical semiconductor process engineering, often using machine learning to reduce measurement time and optimize process windows.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Minnesota
Bachelor's degree Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Bachelor's degree Engineering Physics/Applied Physics at University of Science and Technology of China