Researcher

Bin Zhao received his BS degree from Peking University in 1990, where he majored in Microelectronics. He obtained his MS and MEng from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and NUS in 1993 and 1998 respectively. Zhao joined A*STAR’s Institute of Microelectronics (IME) in July 2000 where he is now a principal research engineer. He has been involved as a digital IC designer in many public-funded and industry projects, such as WLAN Baseband, ONFIG ONU, RFID tag/reader, EHSII, PILLCAM, ZigBee Baseband, PCRAM-II, Network-on-chip(NOC), Delta-sigma PLL, High-speed DAC, and Neural-network Accelerator. His current interests are low-power digital IC design and the implementation of 3D chiplet for neural-network accelerators.