Yu-Chieh Tai

I hold a Master’s degree from EI group of Electrical Engineering department in TU Delft, Netherlands, and possess over two years of experience in transistor-level design, specifically within the analog front end of CMOS image sensors and analog IP blocks. In my previous role, I focused on the design of various IP components, particularly temperature sensors, LDOs, bandgap references, and biasing blocks. Additionally, I was responsible for designing row drivers for high-speed image sensors.

My master’s thesis, titled "On-chip Temperature Compensation with a Reference Voltage Method for CMOS Image Sensors," involved designing a bandgap reference with innovative functionalities aimed at mantaining image sensor performance under temperature variations. This project culminated in a chip tape-out, providing me with comprehensive experience across the full design flow, including specification development, schematic creation, and layout design.

• Nationality: Taiwanese
• Date of birth: 09/11/1996

• CMOS image sensor
• Analog design
• Circuit design
• Materials science
• Quantum dots (QDs)

• IP blocks for high-speed CMOS image sensor (Industry): LDO, biasing block, row drivers, and temperature sensor
• On-chip Temperature Compensation with a Reference Voltage Method for CMOS Image Sensors (Master thesis): Design of a bandgap reference block to
  sensor performance against temperature variations with full design (schematic, layout...)
• Time to digital converter (TDC) two-step, coarse-fine TDC (class project, master): Design a TDC with a paper as prototype to reach the required specifications.
• Switched capacitor power converter (SCPC) (Class project, master): Design and analyze the SCPC with a paper as prototype. Design an appropriate capacitor ratio and investigate the difference between theory and simulation results.
• Binary network hardware design project: Python and VHDL work (Class project, master): Design and improve and machine learning image recognition program with VHDL and a binary network. I wasresponsible for design testbench and code integration.
• Strategy to enhance the absorbability and increase the emitting light in QDs color filter (Bachelor)
• RGB QLED device prepared by inkjet printing with mixed solvent and optimized printing route (Bachelor)

• 2017 Excellent Academic Award, First Semester in Sophomore, Top 5 % in the department of MSE in NTHU
• 2017 Materials Research Society-Taiwan 1st Materials Knowledge Contest, 4th place honor, Competition of Materials knowledge in Introduction of Materials Science & Engineering
• 2018 Corning Future Innovator, Taiwan, Merit Award, Innovation contest for students in the field of engineering and industrial design with the participation of 300+ teams from 50+ universities in Taiwan
• 2018 Contest of Poster Presentation in Department of MSE, Winning Award, Over 50 participants from different grades and top 4 poster presentations.
• 2019 Material Research Society (MRS), Phoenix, AZ, USA, Spring Meeting, Poster Section, the first presenter