Welcome to Yutong Zhao's personal website!
Hi, my name is Yutong Zhao, I am working as an imaging lab specialist at Algolux, a company addressing the critical issue of safety for advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous vehicles. I mainly contributed to the Algolux-Google project hardware side, which is an imaging quality improvement project for Chromebook ecosystem. I also completed a critical update of the EMVA 1288 Standard from version 3.1 to 4.0, a machine vision sensor and camera specification and measurement standard. Checkout this Github page！
I worked as a research associate in CancerCare Manitoba (Canada). My research interests is focused on the image augmentation of Cone-Beam CT (X-ray) images, this involves Monte-Carlo methods, big data analysis and DeepLearning networks. And eventually this research would benefit every single patient that receive radiation therapy in Varian systems. Check Our Github page!
I graduated from the University of Manitoba and got a Master's degree in Science, (2020, Condensed Matter Physics) , and a Bachelor's degree in Science (2018, Physics, First Class Honors). In the meantime, I got the Bachelor's degree of Science (Applied Physics/Nuclear Physics) from Lanzhou University in 2018, due to the 2+2 program between LZU and UofM.
You can find my resume here.
A little history: My hometown Langfang is a satellite city
of Beijing which is located approximately midway between Beijing and Tianjin and its population is 5.46 million (2020 data).
The name of Langfang could be traced back to Song dynasty with more than one thousand years history
(995 - 1000 A.D., named after the Lv duan, a famous Prime Minister of Song dynasty when he is the Undersecretary of finance,
meaning the "The House of Undersecretary").
The Guangyang district where my current home is located has
a even longer history which can be traced back to the year of 222 B.C.
The Qin dynasty first set the Guangyang county there.
The Anci district where I grow up was first set by the
Han dynasty (around 202 B.C.).
My elementary school, junior middle school are all in Anci district. Kinda miss the good old days.
A little geology: The city of Langfang is also known as the "Beijing-Tianjin Corridor" which has a 20 min long by high speed train to both Beijing and Tianjin. The newly built Beijing Daxing International Airport is partially located in Langfang.
My mother is an associate professor of North China Institute of Aerospace Engineering and My father is a senior instructor of Langfang College of Technology. I am proud of them as the best parents in the world.
(Affiliated Elementary School of Langfang Teachers College before 2006)
Sept 2000 - June 2006
Sept 2006 - June 2009
Sept 2009 - June 2012
Chinese Physics Olympiad (2011) , nationwide third class award.
China High School Biology Olympiad (2011) , citywide second class award.
June 2018, Bachelor of Science, Nuclear Physics
Sept 2012 - June 2014, School of Nuclear Science and technology, Nuclear science and technology talent training base (direction of nuclear physics)
Sept 2014 - June 2018, 2+2 program with University of Manitoba
Physics competition of Lanzhou University (2012), Second award.
Jan 2015 - June 2018, Bachelor of Science, Physics
Sept 2018 - Auguest 2020, Master of Science, Physics
Academic Achievement Prize of ELC (2015), Top one in the department (second year).
Faculty of Science Summer Research Scholarship (2016)
Sunil K. Sen Scholarship (2018), Top one in the department (fourth year).
International Graduate Student Entrance Scholarship (2018)
University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship (2019)
TIPS 1: Jim Peebles, the 2019 Nobel Laureate in Physics, is my immediate seniors (1958). The Physics Department in University of Manitoba has only three honors degrees (Astronomy, Physics and Medical Physics) and we both have an honors degree in Physics. I happened to be continuing my graduate studies in the Physics Department at the time of the 2019 Nobel prize, which is a great honor.
TIPS 2: My another immediate seniors, Louis Alexander Slotin is famous for nuclear weapon development. In 1946, during the Manhattan Project, he used his bare hands to prevent a criticality accident in a nuclear experiment and paid with his life for it, since he received massive radiation in a short period of time. He is the only person in this world who have "torn apart a nuclear bomb" with his bare hands.
Mar, 2022 - Present
(Imaging Lab R&D) Camera optimization for self-driving vehicles.
Coding in with python and testing with hardwares, such as cameras, light sources and spectrometers.
Highlights: Algolux-Google project: Camera optimization testing system for Chromebook ecosystem.
Jan 2021 - Mar, 2022
(Medical Physics) Real-time noise removal for the current commercial radiation therapy system.
Skills: Monte-Carlo simulation, parallel computing, deep-learning to improve the image quality of image-guided radiation therapy.
May 2016 - Aug 2020
(Condensed matter physics - spintronics). Research files in Microwave frequency non-Hermitian metamaterials, subsurface dielectric imaging, etc. Published 2 first-authored papers (IF factor = 4.9) and 4 coauthored papers.
Sept 2018 - Apr 2020
Giving lectures about problem-solving skills in physics to enhance the students' understanding of physics concepts.
[1]. Zhao, Y. T., et al. " Broadband Nonreciprocity Realized by Locally Controlling the Magnon's Radiation." Physical Review Applied 14.1 (2020): 014035 [Sci-Hub]
[2]. Zhao, Y. T., et al. " Controlling Microwaves in Non-Hermitian Metamaterials." Physical Review Applied 15.2 (2021): L021003. [Sci-Hub]
[1]. Rao, J. W., et al. " Analogue of dynamic Hall effect in cavity magnon polariton system and coherently controlled logic device. " Nature communications 10.1 (2019): 1-7. [Sci-Hub]
[2]. Yao, B.M., et al. " Coherent control of magnon radiative damping with local photon states ", Communications Physics (2019):0482 [Sci-Hub]
[3]. Rao, J. W., et al. " Level attraction and level repulsion of magnon coupled with a cavity anti-resonance. " New Journal of Physics 21.6 (2019): 065001. [Sci-Hub]
[4]. Guo K., Zhao Y., Beek T., " Analytical method for Rayleigh Scattering in CBCT application. " (2018) CARO-COMP-CAMRT Joint Scientific Meeting, Montreal. [Full Conference Program, Page 22, Abstract No. 147]
[a]. Dielectric constant measurement and permittivity mapping experiment as a part of Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) project.
[b]. Wikipedia editor for physics and Canada related articles (in Chinese language).
We use scintillation detectors.
My company is a supplier of YIG spheres in both mainland China and Canada. Until Nov 2022, we have delivered more than 300 hundreds high quality YIG spheres to our customers across China and Canada.
My company launched an open-source project on Github to accelerate the research related with YIG spheres around the world.