# Yahsing Yuan

> VP of Operations and System Architect at Aluksen Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yahsing

Proven Track Record Commercial Products Delivery
-	Successfully built IC backend design/test team and RF/Microwave test lab from ground up. Products have been passed telecom reliability qualification and shipped to major Asian communication equipment integrators in core optical networking systems deployed in the field.
	High speed 100Gbps/400Gbps telecom and data center grade modulator driver ICs and transimpedance amplifier IC in optical communication applications.
-	GSM/GPRS cellular phone reference design for Asian Market.
-	Integrated GPS/Cellular modem asset tracking devices.
-	10Gbps/25Gbps/100Gbps telecommunication and data center optical transceiver modules.
-	Broadband Headend QAM optical transmitter and receiver modules.
Professional skills Qualifications
-	Over 6 years engineering management experience in semiconductor communication IC areas.
-	Strong technical business development and project management experiences from initial specification definition through product development cycle to releasing into high volume production.
-	Proficient hardware system design experiences in PCB board level design capability from schematic capture to layout experiences. 
-	RF/microwave and 3D EM signal integrity design experiences.
-	Proficient lab experiences in various test equipment (VNA, Spectrum analyzer, high speed sampling and real-time scope, etc.) and trouble-shooting skills.
-	Experiences in cellular phone OTA (TRP/TIS) full type approval process.
-	In-depth outsourcing vendor experiences from semiconductor foundries, wafer level testing (CP), module level assembly, and final testing (FT). 
-	Leadership experience building an effective team from recruiting, training, mentoring, till product delivery. The entire process has passed ISO-9000 certification.

## Work Experience
### Principal System Architect @ Aluksen Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
Jan 2016 – Present
One of the first 3 founding team to start this company.
-	Defined and negotiated 100G/400G/800G product specifications with strategical customers.
-	Architected and specification definition, supervised IC design team to design 200Gbps optical front-end ICs, EML/Silicon-Photonics driver and linear TIA circuits. 
-	Created the in-house pre-Silicon verification check-list process and post-Silicon DVT test environment and auto-characterization procedures. 
-	Built-up a solid high-speed IC package backend design team. Hands-on experiences in setting up 3D EM simulation, using CST or ADS, in high-speed module package design.
-	Designed 50GbE QSFP-28/56 optical module reference design for customer demonstration. 
-	Designed 800Gbps COB optical front-end module with TEC controller and control circuits for customer evaluation. 
-	Design the silicon photonics based linear modulator driver and TIA array customer LiDAR demo Eval-KIT (FMCW detection scheme) interfacing with FPGA. 
-	Built-up a high-speed IC EVT/DVT/production team with in-house wafer level and packaged device level ATE fixtures.
-	Developed a SQL based database server for device manufacture data storage and traceability.
-	Built-up an IC reliability test lab for IC qualification process and device FITS calculation.
-	Outsourcing vendor engagements: GaAs and BiCMOS foundries, package and assembly houses, key components vendor selections, including wafer foundries and No.1 and No.3 OSATs in the world.
-	Customers application engineering engagements, including reference design, documentation generation and problem-solving, etc.

### Sr. Staff  Engineer @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016
- 100Gbps Si-Photonics QSFP-28 optical modules.

### Principal System Engineer @ Semtech
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
- 100Gbps Gearbox ICs.

### Sr. Module Designer @ Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010
- 10Gbps tunable optical communication modules.

### HW Manager, Design Verification Test @ Spreadtrum
Jan 2001 – Jan 2006
- Responsible for the GMS/GPRS phone module reference design.
- Responsible for the GSM/GPRS phone module Full-Type Approval certification process.
- Responsible for the phone module design and verification test and product specification generation.


## Education
### Online Certificate in edX Data Science: Computational Thinking with Python
University of California, Berkeley

### Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
University of Michigan

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in EECS
National Taiwan University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yahsing-yuan-3b2678

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Last updated: 2026-04-13