Zhi Jackie Yao

Zhi Jackie Yao

Research Scientist

MS #50A-3011

1 Cyclotron Rd

Berkeley, CA 94720 us

Zhi Jackie Yao is a Research Scientist with the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering (CCSE) in the Computing Sciences Directorate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laborato r y. She was previously the 2019 Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellow in Computing Sciences.

Jackie has a combined background of computational science and domain sciences of physical waves and electronics. She currently works on device modeling for the co-design of microelectronics systems and for superconducting circuit design. Specifically, she focuses on magnetics, electrodynamics, multiferroics, and ferroelectrics. She is also interested in quantum spin applications and AI-driven design and optimization.

Prior to joining LBNL on Nov. 2019, she obtained both the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCLA.

Journal Articles

R. Jambunathan, Z. Yao, R. Lombardini, A. Rodriguez, and A. Nonaka, "Two-Fluid Physical Modeling of Superconducting Resonators in the ARTEMIS Framework", Computer Physics Communications, October 2, 2023, 291:108836,

P. Kumar, A. Nonaka, R. Jambunathan, G. Pahwa, S. Salahuddin, and Z. Yao, "FerroX: A GPU-accelerated, 3D Phase-Field Simulation Framework for Modeling Ferroelectric Devices", Computer Physics Communications, September 1, 2023, 290:108757,

S. S. Sawant, Z. Yao, R. Jambunathan, A. Nonaka, "Characterization of Transmission Lines in Microelectronic Circuits Using the ARTEMIS Solver", IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques, December 12, 2022, 8:31-39,

Z. Yao, R. Jambunathan, Y. Zeng, and A. Nonaka, "A Massively Parallel Time-Domain Coupled Electrodynamics-Micromagnetics Solver", International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, January 10, 2022, accepted,

Schneider, Joseph D.; Domann, John P.; Panduranga, M. K.; Tiwari, Sidhant; Shirazi, Paymon; Yao, Zhi Jackie; Sennott, Casey; Shahan, David; Selvin, Skyler; McKnight, Geoff, et al., "Experimental demonstration and operating principles of a multiferroic antenna", Journal, December 14, 2019, 126:224104, doi: 10.1063/1.5126047

Yao, Zhi Jackie; Tiwari, Sidhant; Lu, Ting; Rivera, Jesse; Luong, Kevin Q. T.; Candler, Robert N.; Carman, Gregory P.; Wang, Yuanxun Ethan, "Modeling of multiple dynamics in the radiation of bulk acoustic wave (BAW) antennas", Journal, December 13, 2019, 5:7-20, doi: 10.1109/JMMCT.2019.2959596

Conference Papers

Meriam Gay Bautista, Zhi Jackie Yao, Anastasiia Butko, Mariam Kiran, Mekena Metcalf, "Towards Automated Superconducting Circuit Calibration using Deep Reinforcement Learning", 2021 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), Tampa, FL, USA, IEEE, August 23, 2021, pp. 462-46, doi: 10.1109/ISVLSI51109.2021.00091