Yicheng Zhu is an assistant Pprofessor and Friends of Alec ECE Fellow in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

He received his B.Eng. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2017 and 2020, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 2024. His research interests include circuit topologies, control techniques, design-oriented modeling, and high-performance implementations of power electronics for computing and energy systems.

Dr. Zhu was awarded the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Outstanding Student Scholarship, the Outstanding Tsinghua Master’s Thesis Award, and the Berkeley Fellowship in 2020. In 2023, he received Best Paper Awards at the IEEE 24th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL) and the Open Compute Project Future Technologies Symposium, and was selected as one of five worldwide recipients of the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship. In 2024, he was recognized with UC Berkeley’s Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, the Teaching Effectiveness Award, and the Ross N. Tucker Memorial Award for outstanding research. In 2025, he earned a Best Presentation Award at the IEEE 40th Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) and the IEEE PELS Ph.D. Thesis Talk (P3 Talk) Award.