Zigong → Chengdu → New York → San Jose
A quick map of how a kid from a small city in Sichuan ended up designing power management chips on two continents.
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29.35°N, 104.78°E
Zigong
Born and raised in Zigong — a small industrial city in Sichuan known for salt mining, dinosaur fossils, and lantern festivals. First taste of taking things apart to see how they work.
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30.66°N, 104.07°E
Chengdu
Moved to the provincial capital for a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at UESTC — roughly 180 km from home, but a first real step away. This is where circuits stopped being a subject and became the thing I wanted to do.
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40.71°N, 74.01°W
New York
~11,700 km from Chengdu for an M.S. & Ph.D. at Columbia University. New country, new language of instruments, same question: how do you keep power clean and efficient when everything around it is switching?
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37.34°N, 121.89°W
San Jose
~4,100 km west to Samsung's DRAM Design Lab for a circuit design internship — from lecture halls in Manhattan to the middle of Silicon Valley's memory industry.