Bo Gao
Bo Gao was born in 1992 in Shenyang, China. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electronic and Information Science and Engineering from Lanzhou University, China, in 2014. He competed his Professional Science Master in Electrical Power Systems Engineering at NC State University, USA, in 2015. He earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering for his works on power electronics and power semiconductor packaging at NC State University, USA, in 2018. He received sponsorships from US Department of Energy, US Department of Defense, Power America Foundation, and ABB North America during his PhD and postdoc careers.
In China, he participated PhD and MS joint training programs with TU Delft, the Netherlands, Southern University of Science and Technology, China, and Chongqing University, China. He is currently teaching High Frequency Circuits and Computer Aided Engineering at the Department of Automation and Electrical Engineering at Shenyang Polytechnic University as associate professor, developing and promoting the use of indigenous integrated circuits at the Industrial College of Integrated Circuit at the same university as vice dean, and commercializing economically feasible large scale battery energy storage systems at his startup company Innovatus Technology.
Sessions
This talk will cover my journey on adopting KiCAD, not only for myself, but for my team, my students, and my friends. It will cover the decision making process, the technical details (rebuilding my library collection and adapting to KiCAD's UI logic), and things that I had to but gladly learned (such writing primitive scripts to implement certain features).
On the other hand, the talk covers my workflow for designing something based on FOSS or at least free of charge tools, from theoretical feasibility analysis and simulation using Python, floor planning using LibreOffice, simulation using LTSpice, schematic and PCB CAD works using KiCAD, and finally parasitic extraction using Python and FastHenry.
This talk may take 30 mins or 60 mins, depending on time slot availability. With interactive demonstration, I can stretch it to 60. With slides only, I can squeeze it to 30. I will be bringing my own computer especially if an interactive demonstration is preferred, so an HDMI port is appreciated.