Tianyi Liu was born in Shanghai, China, in 1989. He received the B.S. degree from the Tongji University of Information Technology Engineering, Shanghai, China, and the M.S.E. degree from the Politecnico di Milano of Automation Engineering, Milan, Italy, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree from Laboratory LAPLACE, Toulouse University, Toulouse, France in 2018. Since 2018, he has been working at Tongji University as an assistant professor. His research interests include electric machines, advanced control theory, and aviation applications.