Peng Yu received the BS degree in physics from Peking University (People's Republic of China) in 2002 and the MS degree in physics from the University of California San Diego in 2004. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He has interned in Synopsys, IBM, and Cadence.
He is interested in Design For Manufacturing (DFM), OPC algorithms and lithography modeling. He is also interested in synthetic biology and biology problems in general.
He has several publications in DAC, ICCAD, SPIE Microlithography and IEEE Transactions. He has reviewed papers for the IEEE Transactions on CAD and various conferences. He is a student member of SPIE.
He has received DAC Young Student Support Program Award, IBM PhD Fellowship nomination, BACUS Photomask Scholarship from SPIE, the University of Texas Graduate School Continuing Fellowship, BioBricks Foundation SB4.0 Travel Award from Synthetic Biology 4.0, and Inventor Recognition Award from Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC).