Yonghwan Cho
Staff Power Electronics Engineer at Mainspring Energy
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolYonghwan Cho is a Senior Staff Electrical Engineer with 10+ years of deep expertise in power electronics, spanning high-voltage (800V) grid and motor drives to low-voltage automotive and industrial converters. He couples hands-on converter and embedded board design with firmware development, and has a strong track record in EMI mitigation, thermal/PCB optimization, and failure analysis across production and research settings. His work ranges from solid-state transformer research and digital control schemes in academia to practical high-frequency DC/DC designs and automotive-grade reference boards at Analog Devices, and recent senior roles driving 800V power systems at Mainspring and Cerebras. Comfortable across the stack from power topology and motor control algorithms to board-level layout and embedded C/C++, he holds a Ph.D. in power electronics and a patent on current-mode converter feedforward techniques. Notably, he blends academic rigor with production discipline—often troubleshooting noise and reliability issues that bridge lab prototypes and fielded hardware.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Seoul National UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering (Power Electronics), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering (Power Electronics) at North Carolina State UniversityGithub contributions (5)
TEAMDSS/KBO_Player_Salary
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:37 commits, 23 PRs, 15 pushes in 6 days
cyh132/python_basic
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:35 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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