国家优秀青年基金、安徽省杰出青年基金获得者，全国核电子学与核探测技术分会“微电子学”专业委员会副主任，中国科学技术大学物理电子学专业主任。

主要研究领域为专用集成电路（ASIC）芯片设计, 高速、高精度信号采集与处理、超高精度时间测量等。任大科学实验 -- 发改委十二五规划LHAASO中WCDA电子学总工程师、国家重大仪器研制项目CEE工程总体副总工程师等。发展出TIADC新型宽带修正等高速采样技术，达国际一流水平，并应用于高精度时间测量中；发展出自主知识产权的大动态范围读出、高速采样、时间测量等系列ASIC芯片，代表性芯片成功用于LHAASO WCDA读出中，这也是我国大型宇宙线物理实验中首批使用的自研ASIC芯片。工作以来作为第一/通讯作者发表科研论文百余篇，包括发表在IEEE Transactions、Review of Scientific Instruments、Journal of Instrumentation等上的系列论文，作为第一发明人国家发明专利约20项。

• 2000.9 -2004.7   中国科学技术大学  少年班系（00班）本科，获应用物理学学士学位

• 2004.9 -2009.6   中国科学技术大学  近代物理系 硕博连读，获物理电子学博士学位

• 2009.7-2011.8   中国科学技术大学  近代物理系 博士后

• 2009.10-2010.4   法国CPPM研究所工作  访问学者

• 2011.9 -2018.1   中国科学技术大学  近代物理系 副教授

• 2018.2 -至今　中国科学技术大学  近代物理系 教授
  
  

• 中国科学院青年创新促进会优秀会员

• 中国科学院卓越创新中心（粒子物理前沿）“青年拔尖人才奖”

• 中国科技大学第三届青年教师教学基本功竞赛二等奖、最佳教案奖

• 安徽省科学技术一等奖

• 作为参与人获安徽省科学技术一等奖、国家科技进步一等奖（集体奖）

  
  

• Jiajun Qin, Junbo Zhao, Zhuang Li, Jiaming Li, Donglei Guo, and Lei Zhao*, “A Sub-10-ps Resolution Multichannel Time-to-Digital Converter With Two-Stage Interpolation for High-Energy Physics Applications”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 72, No. 3, Mar 2025, pp. 325-332.

• Lei Zhao, Cong Ma, Shaoping Chu, Xingshun Gao, Zouyi Jiang, Ruoshi Dong, Shubin Liu, Qi An*, “Prototype of the Readout Electronics for WCDA in LHAASO”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 64, No. 6, Jun. 2017, pp. 1367-1373.

• Jiaming Li, Jiajun Qin, Lei Zhao*, Ziyu Yang, Xincheng Yang, and Zhe Cao, A Mixed-Signal Micromegas Readout ASIC Prototype With Automatic Charge Measurement Range Calibration, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 71, No. 3, pp. 316-327, March 2024.  

• Jiajun Qin, Wentao Zhong, Yi Cao, Jiaming Li, Zhe Cao, and Lei Zhao*, “Machine-Learning-Based Mismatch Calibration for Time-Interleaved ADCs,” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 71, No. 8, pp. 2012-2019, Aug. 2024.  

• Han Chen, Jiajun Qin, Lei Zhao*, Zhuang Li, Yongkang Cai, Qi An, “Design of a prototype analog front-end ASIC for the LGAD readout”, Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 17, Sept. 2022, pp. T09004-1 - T09004-17.

• Jiajun Qin , Yuting Wang, Lei Zhao*, Boyu Cheng, Han Chen, Qi An, “A Waveform Sampling Prototype ASIC for Picosecond-Level Time Measurement”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 69, No. 11, Nov. 2022, pp. 2271-2279.

• Yichun Fan, Lei Zhao*, Jiajun Qin, Zouyi Jiang, Zhe Cao , Shubin Liu, Qi An, “Research and Verification on Real-Time Interpolated Timing Algorithm Based on Waveform Digitization”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 67, No. 10, Oct. 2020, pp. 2246-2254.   

• Lei Zhao, Zouyi Jiang, Ruoshi Dong, Zhe Cao, Xingshun Gao, Boyu Cheng, Jiadong Hu, Shubin Liu, Qi An*, “An 8-Gs/s 12-Bit TIADC System With Real-Time Broadband Mismatch Error Correction”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 65, No. 12, Dec. 2018, pp. 2892-2900.

• Zouyi Jiang, Lei Zhao*, Xingshun Gao, Ruoshi Dong, Jinxin Liu, Qi An, “Mismatch error correction for time interleaved analog-to-digital converter over a wide frequency range”, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 89, No. 8, Aug. 2018, pp.084709-1 - 084709-9.   

• Peipei Deng, Lei Zhao*, Jiaming Lu, Bowen Li, Ruoshi Dong, Shubin Liu, Qi An, “Prototype design of singles processing unit for the small animal PET”, Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 13, May 2018, pp. T05007-1 - T05007-13.

• Chunfeng Ye, Lei Zhao*, Zhongyue Zhou, Shubin Liu, Qi An, “A field-programmable-gate-array based time digitizer for the time-of-flight mass spectrometry”, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 85, Apr. 2014, pp. 045115-1 – 045115-7.

• Lei Zhao, Xueye Hu, Shubin Liu, Jinhong Wang, Qi Shen, Huanhuan Fan, Qi An, “The Design of a 16-Channel 15 ps TDC Implemented in a 65 nm FPGA”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 60, No. 5, Oct. 2013, pp. 3532-3536.

• Lei Zhao, Weihao Wu, Jianfeng Liu, Yu Liang, Jiajun Qin, Li Yu, Shubin Liu, Qi An*, “Prototype of a front-end readout ASIC designed for the Water Cherenkov Detector Array in LHAASO”, Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 10, Mar. 2015, pp. P03015-1 –P03015-13.  

• Jiaming Lu, Lei Zhao*, Kairen Chen, Peipei Deng, Bowen Li, Shubin Liu, Qi An, “Real-Time FPGA-based Digital Signal Processing and Correction for a Small Animal PET”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 66, No. 7, Jul. 2019, pp. 1287-1295.

• Lei Zhao, Shaoping Chu, Cong Ma, Xingshun Gao, Yunfan Yang, Shubin Liu, Qi An*, “Precise Clock Synchronization in the Readout Electronics of WCDA in LHAASO”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 62, No. 6, Dec. 2015, pp. 3249-3255.

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