Yao Liu (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in microelectronics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 2008 and 2011, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2019.,Before he obtained a faculty job, he gained over-5-year working experience in IC industry and academia. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the School of Microelectronics Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China. His research interests include FPGA prototyping and VLSI implementation for hardware security systems, computer architecture, and network systems.