2012–2017, 香港科技大学，电子及计算机工程，博士
2009–2012, 西安交通大学，电子科学与技术，硕士
2005–2009, 西安交通大学，微电子学，学士

2019年11月–至今, 南方科技大学，助理教授
2017年9月–2019年10月, 香港科技大学，博士后研究员

模拟及电源集成电路设计
GaN功率器件驱动及控制芯片
高效智能LED/LD驱动控制芯片
高性能DC-DC / AC-DC电源芯片

2023，IEEE ISCAS最佳论文
2023，IEEE CICC最佳学生论文提名
2020，广东省深圳市海外高层次“孔雀计划”人才C类, 2020
2017，IEEE 固态电路协会ISSCC Student Travel Grant Award, 2017
2014，Synopsys 国际微电子奥林匹亚竞赛香港赛区第一名, 2014

1.X. Li and Y. Gao, "A Fully-Integrated Half-Bridge GaN Driver for Bidirectional Power Transfer," 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Monterey, CA, USA, 2023, pp. 1-4. (Best Paper Award, 3 out of 1400 submitted papers)
2.C. Tong, Z. Fan and Y. Gao, “A Li-ion Battery Input 96.8% Peak Efficiency Single-Inductor Off-Chip-Capacitor-Free 2-Switch LED Driver with Two-Color Mixing Capability,”IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2023. (Best Student Paper Finalist)
3.X. Han, W. -H. Ki, L. Wu and Y. Gao, “Ultra-High PSR Output-Capacitor-Free Adaptively-Biased 2-Power-Transistor LDO with 200-mV Dropout,” IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL), 2022.
4.Y. Gao, L. Li, K. Chong, and P. K.T. Mok, “A Hybrid LED Driver With Improved Efficiency”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Vol. 55, No. 8, pp. 2129-2139, Aug. 2020.
5.Y. Gao, L. Li and P. K.T. Mok, “An Inductor-Less LED Driver for Efficient Lighting and Visible-Light- Communication”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2018, Vol. 53, No. 8, pp. 2343-2355, Aug. 2018.
6.L. Li, Y. Gao, H. Jiang, P. K.T. Mok, and K. M. Lau, “An Auto-Zero-Voltage-Switching Quasi-Resonant LED Driver with GaN FETs and Fully Integrated LED Shunt Protectors”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 913–923, March 2018.
7.Y. Gao, L. Li and P. K.T. Mok, “An AC Input Switching-Converter-Free LED Driver with Low-Frequency- Flicker Reduction”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2017, Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 1424-1434, May 2017.
8.Y. Gao, L. Li, P. K.T. Mok, “An AC-Input Inductor-less LED Driver for Visible-Light-Communication Applications with 8Mb/s Data Rate and 6.4% Low-Frequency Flicker”, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2017, pp. 384-385.
9.Y. Gao, L. Li, P. K.T. Mok, “A 5.5 W AC Input Converter-Free LED Driver with 82% Low-Frequency-Flicker Reduction, 88.2% Efficiency and 0.92 Power Factor”, IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, June 2015, pp. C286-C287.