Yan, Like
Principal Engineer at MediaTek
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYan Li is a Principal Engineer and materials scientist with a Ph.D. from Northwestern and nearly two decades driving advanced packaging innovation at Intel and Samsung, now continuing at MediaTek. She combines deep hands-on failure analysis and reliability expertise with program and supplier management to deliver turn-key 2.5D/3D chiplet, memory, and heterogeneous integration solutions at scale. Yan has led launches of EMIB and other cutting-edge packaging technologies and developed FI/FA methodologies and test vehicles that enabled high-volume manufacturing. She bridges research, EDA tooling, material simulation and digital-twin efforts, and regularly influences the field through conference leadership, editorial work, 30+ papers and six patents. Less obvious: she pairs microanalysis mastery (SEM/TEM/FIB/3D X-ray/TOF-SIMS and more) with back-end software/system contributions—improving hypervisor debug and trace tooling in open-source projects—illustrating rare cross-domain fluency. Based in San Jose, she is known for turning complex failure insights into actionable product and process architectures that improve yield, reliability and customer outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) and Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Master of Science (MS) and Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at Peking UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Materials Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (16)
c1710
hyper10
debugging10
hypervisor10
embedded10
interrupt-handling10
error-handling10
low-level-programming10
interrupt10
c1110
sys10
architecture9
architectures9
system9
develop9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
projectacrn/acrn-hypervisor
Mar 2018 - Apr 2020
Project ACRN hypervisor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:132 commits, 67 PRs, 95 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Yan,'s contributions primarily revolve around improving the hypervisor's stability and debugging capabilities. They focused on refactoring code, addressing potential memory corruption issues, and enhancing logging mechanisms to capture critical boot-time and runtime information. Furthermore, the user added tools to analyze trace data and diagnostic commands to improve the hypervisor's debug support. These contributions indicate a focus on enhancing the reliability and debuggability of the system.
hypervisor
lyan3/acrn-devicemodel
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
device-modelnodejsacrn
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