Shaolin Liao (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Full Professor with Sun Yat-sen University in China. He is also an Adjunct Faculty of Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, IL, USA since 2017, as well as a Visiting Scholar of Purdue University in USA since 2024. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, in 2008 and B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2000. From 2010 to 2019, he worked as a Postdoc and then as an Electrical Engineer at Argonne National Laboratory of the USA Department of Energy. From 2017 to 2021, he worked as an Adjunct Faculty and then as a Professor of Research at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, IIT. Since 2024, He is a Visiting Scholar of Purdue University, working with Professor Weng Cho Chew. He has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal since May, 2025. He was also an Associate Editor of IEEE Access (2019-2023), as well as an Academic Editor of PeerJ Computer Science Journal. His research spans the multidisciplinary areas of AI powered electromagnetics and photonics science.