Yihao Wu – PhD Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSB
Welcome!
Greetings from Yihao! I am currently a 3rd-year PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). I am honored to have my PhD co-advised by Prof. Luke Theogarajan from UCSB, and Prof. Bongjin Kim from KAIST (Daejeon, Republic of Korea). Before joining UCSB, I earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Science and Technology and a Bachelor of Management in Information Management and Information Systems from Beijing University of Technology, as well as a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida.
My research interests include digital and mixed-signal in-memory computing, and ASIC-based accelerators for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (COPs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Outside of academia, I enjoy playing badminton, swimming, photography, and gaming. One of my dreams is to own a pickup truck (especially a Ford F-150 Raptor) and travel the world with a cat and a capybara by my side.
Publications
A CMOS Probabilistic Computing Chip with Hardware-Aware Learning
COBI: A Degree-of-56 Column-Bipartite Densely Connected Digital Ising Chip with 8b Spin Coefficients
m-Zephyr: A Digital In-Memory Ising Chip with 240 Spins Featuring Enhanced Connectivity Based on a Modified 3D Zephyr Topology
Quantized Context Based LIF Neurons for Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks in 45nm
Micromachined Thin Film Ceramic PZT Multimode Resonant Temperature Sensor
Thin Film PZT Multimode Resonant MEMS Temperature Sensor
Poster Presentations
m-Zephyr: a Digital In-Memory Ising Chip with 240 Spins with Improved Connectivity with a Modified Zephyr Topology
Low-cost human posture monitoring system based on infrared array sensor
Academic Service
- Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I), 2026.
Contact
3217 Bioengineering Building
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Email: yihao_wu@ucsb.edu