# Dongwei Li

> Principal Software Engineer at Cadence Design Systems

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dongweili

•	Double Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering 
•	Over 10 years’ industrial collaboration and research experience
•	Extensive understanding of new techniques on EMC, antenna theory, electromagnetic sensors, ,electric arc detection, and electrical apparatus design
•	Solid knowledge of multi-scale/multi-physics simulation, Computational Electromagnetics (CEM), and High-Performance Computing (HPC) featured Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE)
•	Competence in embedded electronic system design
•	Proven success as a creative and motivated leader

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Cadence Design Systems
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Strong background on computational electromagnetics, circuit theory and C++ 
Develop and maintain field solver 
Knowledge of SI, PI, EMI and EMC

### 3D Electromagnetic Field Solver Developer @ Mentor Graphics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Expertise in 3D EM field solver formulations and software architecture
Performance optimization of dense and sparse matrix computations
Parallel programming using shared and distributed memory systems 
Research, architect, develop and benchmark 3D EM field solver
Contribute to marketing collateral to promote winning values of the 3D Field solver Work

### CAE Research Associate Engineer (Contracted to OSU SIMCenter) @ American Honda Motor Company, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Columbus, Ohio Area
Vehicle-mounted antenna performance characterization with hierarchical multi-level fast multi-pole algorithm (H-MLFMA) based IE-DDMs
Design of large-scale finite antenna array systems, specifically wide-band antenna arrays with frequency selective surfaces
Signal and power integrity on multi-layer PCBs with transient electromagnetic/circuit co-simulation
Multi-physics modeling and simulation for arc physics and EMC effects
Commercial software development based on domain decomposition methods (DDM)

### Research Associate 2 - Engineer @ The Ohio State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

### Post-doctoral fellow @ The Ohio State University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 | Columbus, Ohio Area
Advancement of computational electromagnetics (EM) and multi-scale analysis, which includes:
1. " Non-overlapping and non-conformal domain decomposition for finite element
method (DDFEM)
2. " Finite element or integral equation Discontinuous Galerkin method (DG)
3. " Hybrid finite element-boundary integral-multilevel fast multipole (FE-BI-MLFMA)
method
4. " Multi-scale homogenization methods and its application on frequency selective
surface (FSS) radome-antenna systems


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Politecnico di Milano

### Master's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Xi'an Jiaotong University

### Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Xi'an Jiaotong University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dongwei-li

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Last updated: 2026-04-12