BACKGROUND: Dr. Kuntao Ye has a good background on electrical & optical engineer and project managing in the field crossing microelectronics, micro-nano fabrication (specialized in MEMS), optical instrumentation and photonics. He involved in utilizing leadership, interpersonal, innovation skills in a team environment to accomplish project goals. Both academic and industrial research & development position would fit his dream.
WORK EXPERIENCE: Associate Professor, JiangXi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, China, Oct. 2009~recent Chief Technology Officer, IntelliSense Corporation, Nanjing, Sept. 2007~ Sept. 2009 Product Engineer, IntelliSense Corporation, Boston, USA, May 2007 ~ Aug. 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, Engineering Physics Department, McMaster University, Ontario, Feb. ~May. 2007 Physics&Math Instructor, Upward Bound Program, College of Mount St. Joseph, Feb. 2006 ~Dec. 2006 Research Assistant, Photonic System Development Lab at ECECS Department of UC, July 2000~Feb. 2006 Research Assistant, Bioacoustics Research Group at Dept. of Physics, East Carolina University (ECU), Sept. 1998 ~Aug.1999: Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Physics, ECU, Aug. 1997 ~ Aug.1998
EDUCATION: Ph.D., Electrical Engineer, Feb 2006, GPA 3.78/4.0 University of Cincinnati (UC), Cincinnati, Ohio Thesis: Investigation of a Method for Integration of Optical Nanoprobes with CMOS Photodetection Circuitry (Advisor: Dr. Fred Beyette Jr.)
M.S., in Applied Physics, June 1999, GPA 4.0/4.0 East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina Thesis: Development of a Facility to Make Automated, Simultaneous, Normal Mode Vibration and Radiation Measurements on a violin (Advisor: Dr. George Bissinger)
M.S, Condensed Matter Physics, July 1997, GPA 3.65/4.0 Nankai University, Tianjin, China Thesis: Interaction of Light with Matters in the Micro-Circular-Cylinder (Advisor: Dr. Jianguo Tian, Prof. Chunzhou Zhang)
RELATED PROJECTS: Acadamic Project: 1. Study on MEMS translational mirror based Fourier Transformation Spectrometer(2007-2009), funded by Education Department of JiangXi province, 15,000 RMB; My Role: principle investigator 2. MEMS simulation software of multi-physics field coupling(2007-2009), funded by Science and technology department of People’s Republic of China, 800,000 RMB, My Role: core investigator(rank 3) 3. Instrumentation on a laser induced time-resolved fluorescence detection system(2007), funded by McMaster University Industrial Project: 1. Industrialization of design & simulation platform of MEMS multi-physics field coupling and its related MEMS product (2008-2011), funded by Science and technology department of JiangSu province, 9,500,000 RMB; My Role: core investigator(rank 5) and principle engineer for a sub-project 2. MEMS spectrometer product development(2007-2009): Responsible for Project managing; Design of overall system, Overall funding 1,000,000RMB, principle engineer and project manager 3. Field-assisted anodic bonding study for direct Fiber-to-Si attachment (2003-2004): Responsible for Study the field-assisted anodic bonding process between glass fiber and Si based MEMS pressure sensor Student Project: 1. Design and test CMOS photo sensor pixel (year of 2002-2003): Responsible for Design and implement several different type photosensors, and their performances were compared through experimental testing 2. Fabrication and characterization of MEMS pressure sensor (2001): Responsible for Fabricate MEMS pressure sensors through bulk micromachining process and evaluate their performances 3. Study of violin’s vibration and sound radiation (1998-1999): Responsible for Study a violin’s vibration mode in play through dynamic analysis method to identify its vibration normal mode. 4. Study of fast laser ablation on porcine skin (1997-1998): Responsible for Operate Q-switch 1064nm ns laser pulses to ablate the porcine skin; Measure the ablation probability at different laser pulse energy to identify the ablation mechanism.
SKILLS: Language and teaching Skills: Been teaching college courses of College Physics”, Digital Signal Processing. Good at technical writing, oral presentation and communication in Chinese and English. Design and simulate MEMS devices with CMOS analog control circuitry: Be able to design MEMS devices after MEMS pro simulations, including designing and simulating the analog control circuitry of the MEMS devices, Optical system design and simulation, Mechanical system design Hands-on fabrication processes for MEMS device: Mask design and layout, Lithography, TMAH, EDP Wet etching and RIE dry etching, Oxidation, Oxide Removal, E-beam metal evaporation, LPCVD, Glass-silicon electrostatic bonding, Boron drive-in to silicon, Rapid thermal annealing, Aluminum sintering, etc. Operate different electrical and optical testing instruments: for example, NI DAQmx board, Semiconductor analyzer, Multi-channel data acquisition system, 1064nm Q-switch or CW laser system, He:Ne 632.8nm cw laser system, Argon ion CW laser system, Optical muti-channel analyzer, Optical spectrometer, Pulse delay and generator, Lock-in amplifier etc. LabVIEW programming: Integrating optical and electrical instruments to form an experimental testing system through LabVIEW programming, familiar with RS-232, IEEE-488 and other ports protocal Specialized Design and simulation software: MEMS Pro (L-Edit, LVS, T-SPICE, S-Edit), Rsoft (BeamPROP, FullWAVE, BandSOLVE), Mathematica, OSLO (optical design and simulation), Alibre 3D mechanical design software. General software: Microsoft Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP System Installation & Maintenance, Computer Network Hardware and Software Setup, Application Software Installation & Maintenance, Microsoft Office Software (Word, Excel…), Data Analysis Software, C programming, Unix System Operation & Programming, etc.
RELATED PUBLISHING: [1] Ye Yuan, Ji-Young Hwang, Mowleswaran Krishnamoorthy, Kuntao Ye, Yuan Zhang, Jin Ning, Roy C. Wang, M. Jamal Deen, and Qiyin Fang, "High-throughput acousto-optics-tunable-filter-based time-resolved fluorescence spectrometer for optical biopsy," Optics Letters, 34(7): 1132-1134, 2009 [2] Ye, Kuntao and Beyette Jr., F. R.,Integrated optical nanoprobe sensor implemented using a mixed technology CMOS fabrication process, 2005 IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuit and Systems, Cincinnati OH, August 7-10, pp. 778-781 [3] Abeysinghe, D.C., Ranatunga, V., Balagopal, A., Mu, H., Ye, K., Klotzkin, D., A novel technique for high-strength direct fiber-to-Si submount attachment using field-assisted anodic bonding for optoelectronics packaging, 2004 IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 16 (9), pp.2150-2152 [4] Bhadri, P., Ye, K., Guliants, E., Beyette Jr., F.R., Implementation of a Si/SiC hybrid optically controlled high power switching device, 2002 Proceedings of SPIE, The International Society for Optical Engineering, v4654, pp.101-109 [5] Ye, K., Beyette Jr., F.R., Characterization of a monolithic silicon MEMS technology in standard CMOS process, 2001 Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, v4534, pp.79-85 [6] Bhadri, P., Sukumaran, D., Ye, K, Dasgupta, S., Guliants, E., Beyette Jr., F.R., Design of a smart optically controlled high power switch for fly-by-light applications, 2001 IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, v1, pp.401-404 [7] Ye, Kuntao, Bissinger, George, Attaining `free-free' normal mode frequency and damping conditions for the violin, 2000 Proceedings of SPIE The International Society for Optical Engineering, v4062, pp. I/- & 2000 Proceedings of the International Modal Analysis Conference - IMAC v1, pp.398-403 [8] Bissinger, George, Ye, Kuntao, Automated hammer-impact modal analysis with a scanning laser vibrometer: Working example - a violin, 2000 Proceedings of SPIE,The International Society for Optical Engineering, v4062, pp. I/- 2000 Proceedings of the International Modal Analysis Conference - IMAC 1, pp.943-949 [9] Bissinger, G., Ye, K., Effect of holding on the normal modes of an instrumented violin bow, 2000 Shock and Vibration Digest, 32 (1), pp. 56 , 1999 Proceedings of the International Modal Analysis Conference - IMAC 1, pp.126-130 [10] Tian, Jianguo, Ye, Kuntao, Zhang, Chunping, Li, Jia, Zhang, Guangyin, Analysis on optical limiting in focused optical system, 1998 Guangdianzi Jiguang/Journal of Optoelectronics Laser, 9(1), pp. 37-39 [11] Zhang, Cunzhou, Ye, Kuntao, Ji, Hongshun, Zhu, Jian, Lu, Jingfa, Pan, Xiaoning, Wang, Chingyue, Micro-cylinder's local density of modes”, 1997 Guangdianzi Jiguang/Journal of Optoelectronics Laser, 8(6), pp. 479-482 [12] Zhang, Cunzhou, Ji, Hongshun, Ye, Kuntao, Zhu, Jian, Zhang, Guangyin, Pan, Xiaoning, Wang, Chingyue, Wang, Jianmin, Selective excitation of Nd3+ :YAG micro-spherical laser , 1997 Hongwai Yu Haomibo Xuebao/Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 16(2), pp147-151
