Ming Liu is Dean of the Institute for Advanced Chip and System Technology at Fudan University, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, IEEE Fellow, and Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences. He is also a professor and Ph.D. supervisor at the Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Director of the Key Laboratory of Microelectronic Devices and Integrated Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chief Scientist of a National Basic Research Program of China project, recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, leader of an NSFC Innovative Research Group, and a National Candidate of the New Century Talents Project.

Academician Liu has long been engaged in microelectronics research. His work focuses on emerging memories, micro/nanoelectronic devices, advanced semiconductor materials and structures, and micro/nanofabrication technologies for integrated circuits. He has made systematic and creative contributions to memory device models and mechanisms, material structures, core enabling technologies, and integrated circuit fabrication technologies.

His representative achievements include establishing physical models for resistive random-access memory (RRAM), proposing and realizing fundamental theories and key technical approaches for high-performance RRAM and its integration, expanding new flash memory material and structure systems, proposing reliability characterization techniques, failure models, and physical mechanisms, developing China’s first self-owned-IP 8M nanocrystal memory and 1G NOR flash memory chips, and advancing integrated circuit fabrication technologies for applications including mask manufacturing, special devices urgently needed for national major projects, and information technology.

Representative Achievements

Academician Liu has published more than 300 SCI-indexed papers, with over 6,000 SCI citations by others. Six papers were selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers, and two works were included in the 2013 ITRS International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. He has authored 2 monographs and translated 1 book. He has been granted 246 invention patents, including 18 U.S. invention patents, with major patents transferred or licensed to multiple leading integrated circuit companies.

Major Awards

Academician Liu has received numerous major awards, including the 2016 State Natural Science Award, Second Class, ranked first; the 2013 State Technological Invention Award, Second Class, ranked first; the 2007 State Technological Invention Award, Second Class, ranked second; the 2005 State Technological Invention Award, Second Class, ranked fourth; the 2009 State Scientific and Technological Progress Award, Second Class, ranked fourth; the 2018 Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievement Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ranked first; the 2017 Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Scientific and Technological Progress Award; the 2012 Vacuum Science and Technology Achievement Award; the 2015 Chinese Institute of Electronics Science and Technology Award, Natural Science First Prize, ranked first; the 2010 Beijing Science and Technology First Prize, ranked first; the 2014 Beijing Science and Technology Second Prize, ranked first; and the 2014 Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievement Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ranked eighth.

Academic Impact and Mentoring

Academician Liu has delivered more than 60 invited talks at international academic conferences. He has supervised more than 40 Ph.D. students, among whom 2 received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 3 received the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, and 3 received the Chinese Academy of Sciences Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award. Other students received the first Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of the Chinese Society of Electronics Education in 2017 and the Chinese Vacuum Society Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Academic Service

Academician Liu has served as Associate Editor of Applied Physics A, council member of the second council of the Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology, member of the Teaching Steering Committee of the School of Microelectronics at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, council member of the eighth council of the Chinese Vacuum Society, executive council member and 2006–2007 Executive Chair of the Micro-Nano Devices and Systems Technology Branch of the China Instrument and Control Society, executive council member of the Youth Committee of the Chinese Materials Research Society, editorial board member of the “Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Series,” editorial board member of the “Micro-Nano Technology Book Series,” invited editorial board member of the sixth Chinese Journal of Sensors and Actuators, and member of the Information Technology Science Expert Group of the sixth Expert Committee of the Science Press Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Mentoring Role in the Laboratory

As Chief Scientific Advisor of the laboratory, Academician Liu provides strategic and academic mentoring for frontier interdisciplinary research in biomedical integrated circuits, brain-computer interface chips, intelligent sensing systems, and next-generation integrated circuit technologies.