Yiqi Liu was born in Haikou, China, in 1983. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in control engineering from the Chemical University of Technology, Beijing, in 2009 and the Ph.D. degree in control engineering from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 2013. From 2013 to 2016, he was a Lecturer with the South China University of Technology. Since 2016, he has been an Associate Professor with Department of Automation, South China University of Technology. He is the author of more than 44 articles. His research interests include soft-sensors, fault diagnosis, and wastewater treatment, and holds three patents. He was a recipient of EU-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships, the Hongkong Scholar Award in 2016, Chinese Scholarship Council Award in 2011, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Award in 2015.