Yuxin Zhou
ASIC Digital Design, Senior Engineer at Synopsys Inc
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYuxin Zhou is a senior ASIC digital design engineer with 13 years of experience, currently driving RTL architecture and implementation at Synopsys from Richmond Hill, Ontario. With an MEng in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto and a strong hardware/software background, Yuxin bridges ASIC design, embedded software, and firmware—translating specs into production-ready RTL and verification artifacts. Past roles include embedded software development for industrial communication products at Molex, where hardware/software diagnostics and compliance testing were key responsibilities. An active contributor to ns-3 network simulator development, Yuxin has implemented LTE MAC scheduling algorithms and throughput calculations, showcasing a practical blend of algorithmic thinking and low-level systems coding. Colleagues rely on Yuxin for clear design docs, cross-functional collaboration, and pragmatic solutions that reduce iteration during design reviews.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.8, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 3.8 at McMaster UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng, Computer Engineering, 4.0, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Engineering, 4.0 at University of Toronto
Chinese, English
Github Skills (11)
scheduling10
algorithms10
c-language10
sched10
cprogramming-language10
ns310
lte10
scheduler10
simulator9
simulations9
simulation9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nsnam/ns-3-dev-git
Oct 2012 - Apr 2013
GitHub read-only mirror of ns-3-dev repository, will be kept in sync with main GitLab.com repository. Please DO NOT file pull requests here; instead, file issues and merge requests at https://gitlab.com/nsnam/ns-3-dev/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Yuxin's commits primarily focus on implementing and modifying LTE MAC schedulers within the ns-3 framework. The contributions involve core changes to the `fdbet-ff-mac-scheduler.cc`, `fdtbfq-ff-mac-scheduler.cc`, `pss-ff-mac-scheduler.cc`, `tta-ff-mac-scheduler.cc`, and `tdmt-ff-mac-scheduler.cc` files. These changes suggest the user was responsible for implementing scheduling algorithms and related functionality. They also adjusted the throughput calculation.
twinedevsyncgitlabmerge-requests
dizhizhou/coursera_cloud_computing_part1_assignment
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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