Academic Qualification
Ph.D. in Department of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
Master in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Bachelor in Tianjin University
Teaching Area
Flexible electronics, and Printed electronics
Research Area
Stretchable electronics
Human machine interfaces
Olfaction display
Flexible biosensors
Flexible powering technologies
Professional Services
Editorial Board Member, Discover Electronics, since 2024
Youth Editor, Nano-Micro Letters, since 2025
Youth Editor, Soft Science, since 2025
Youth Editor, Engineering, since 2026
Youth Editor, BMEMat, since 2026
Working Experience
Apr. 2025 ~ present, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Innovation Engineering, MUST
Apr. 2024 ~ Mar. 2025, Research Associate, Department of Electric & Electronic Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Oct. 2022 ~ Mar. 2024, Research Associate, Department of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
Research Outputs
74 technical articles; 21 patents
> 6200 citations; H-index: 41 (Google scholar)
Academic Publication (selected)
1. Yiming Liu, Wooyoung Park, Chun Ki Yiu, Xingcan Huang, Shengxin Jia, Yao Chen, Hehua Zhang, Hongting Chen, Pengcheng Wu, Mengge Wu, Zhenyu Liu, Yuyu Gao, Kening Zhu, Zhao Zhao*, Yuhang Li*, Tomoyuki Yokota*, Takao Someya*, and Xinge Yu*, Miniaturized, portable gustation interfaces for VR/AR/MR, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (49), e2412116121, 2024.
2. Yiming Liu, Shengxin Jia, Chun Ki Yiu, Wooyoung Park, Zhenlin Chen, Jin Nan, Xingcan Huang, Hongting Chen, Wenyang Li, Yuyu Gao, Weike Song, Tomoyuki Yokota, Takao Someya*, Zhao Zhao*, Yuhang Li*, and Xinge Yu*, Intelligent Wearable Olfactory Interface for Latency-free Mixed Reality and Fast Olfactory Enhancement, Nature Communications, 15, 4474, 2024. (Editors’ Highlights)
3. Yiming Liu, Chun Ki Yiu, Zhao Zhao, Wooyoung Park, Rui Shi, Xingcan Huang, Yuyang Zeng, Kuan Wang, Tsz Hung Wong, Shengxin Jia, Jingkun Zhou, Zhan Gao, Ling Zhao, Kuanming Yao, Jian Li, Chuanlu Sha, Yuyu Gao, Guangyao Zhao, Ya Huang, Dengfeng Li, Qinglei Guo, Yuhang Li*, and Xinge Yu*, Soft, Miniaturized, Wireless Olfactory Interface for Virtual Reality, Nature Communications, 14(1), 1-14, 2023. (Editors’ Highlights)
4. Yiming Liu, Chun Ki Yiu, Zhen Song, Ya Huang, Kuanming Yao, Tszhung Wong, Jingkun Zhou, Ling Zhao, Xingcan Huang, Sina Khazaee Nejad, Mengge Wu, Dengfeng Li, Jiahui He, Xu Guo, Junsheng Yu, Xue Feng, Zhaoqian Xie*, and Xinge Yu*, Electronic Skin as Wireless Human Machine Interfaces for Robotic VR, Science Advances, 8, eabl6700, 2022.
5. Chun Ki Yiu†, Yiming Liu†, Wooyoung Park†, Jian Li, Xingcan Huang, Kuanming Yao, Yuyu Gao, Hongwei Chu, Jingkun Zhou, Dengfeng Li, Hu Li, Binbin Zhang, Lung Chow, Ya Huang, Qingsong Xu*, and Xinge Yu*,Skin-Interfaced Multimodal Sensing and Tactile Feedback System as Enhanced Human-Machine Interface for Closed-Loop Drone Control, Science Advances, 11(13), eadt6041, 2025.
6. Yiming Liu, Xingcan Huang, Jingkun Zhou, Chun Ki Yiu, Zhen Song, Wei Huang, Sina Khazaee Nejad, Hu Li, Tsz Hung Wong, Kuanming Yao, Ling Zhao, Woojung Yoo, Wooyoung Park, Jiyu Li, Ya Huang, Hiuwai Raymond Lam, Enming Song, Xu Guo, Yanwei Wang, Zhenxue Dai, Lingqian Chang*, Wen Jung Li*, Zhaoqian Xie*, and Xinge Yu*, Stretchable Sweat-activated Battery in Skin-Integrated Electronics for Continuous Wireless Sweat Monitoring, Advanced Science, 202104635, 2022.
7. Yiming Liu*, Xingcan Huang, Qiang Zhang, Wooyoung Park, Jinpei Wang, Jingyou Su, Zhao Zhao, Xue Wang, Miao Kong, Mingxiu Lv, Xinxin He, Jiacheng Wang, Shengxin Jia, Chun Ki Yiu, Jianwei Li, Shiyuan Liu, Kenjiro Fukuda, Tomoyuki Yokota, Jianxin Tang, Kangning Ren*, Takao Someya*, Chao Zhang*, Xinge Yu*, Self-Driven, Stretchable Drug Delivery Electronics for Acne Treatment, ACS Nano, 19, 35, 31740–31752, 2025.
8. Yixuan Wang, Yakun Wen, Xinyi Wang, Hao Sun, Haihang Feng, Zhichao Ma, Yanlong Li, Mingyi Chen, Di Chen, Yingli Shi*, Yiming Liu*, Zuqing Yuan*, Guozhen Shen*, A flexible wireless passive platform for decoupled electrolyte and temperature sensing toward heat-stress assessment, Advanced Materials, e73620, 2026.
9. Miao Kong, Yuxin Chen, Shengwei Gao, Xue Wang, Jiaxin Zhuang, Panqi Huang, Zifan Li, Xu Wang, Zilin Wang, Yuqing Zhang, Ji Cheng, Ruiqi Guo, Songshan Zeng, Ying Hong, Deyuan Wei*, Yingli Shi*, Rui Shi*, Shiyuan Liu*, Yiming Liu*, Bilayer encapsulation strategy enabled ultra-stretchable electronic skin for human-machine interaction, Chemical Engineering Journal, 176991, 2026.
10. Yuqing Zhang, Panqi Huang, Shengwei Gao, Miao Kong, Yuxin Chen, Xue Wang, Yingli Shi, Martins Rui Paulo da Silva, Mak Pui In, Junchen Liao*, Ruiqi Guo*, Yiming Liu*, Shiyuan Liu*, A Miniaturized, High-Fidelity Wearable Respiration Sensing System for Diverse Physiological States Monitoring, Advanced Functional Materials, e76185, 2026.
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Research Grants
2024.04 -- 2025.04 FY2024 JSPS International Fellowships for Research in Japan (JSPS)
2025.04 -- 2029.04 Macau University of Science and Technology Setup Funding
2025.12 -- 2027.12 Beijing-Macau Joint Funding
2026.04 -- 2029.04 The Science and Technology Development Fund
2026.05 -- 2029.05 Company granted Funding
Patents (selected)
U.S. Patent 12,141,338 B1, Portable Virtual Taste Generator.
U.S. Patent 11,604,512, Fingertip-Motion Sensing Device and Handwriting Recognition System Using the Same.
U.S. Patent 11,601,071, Tattoo-Like Stretchable Triboelectric Nanogenerator For Energy Harvesting.
Professional Certification and Awards
Bronze Prize for National Exhibition of Inventions, 2022;
Outstanding Academic Performance Award for Research Degree Students, 2020-2022;
Research Tuition Scholarship, 2019-2022.
Openings
We are always looking for highly motivated postdoctoral fellows, Ph.D. candidates, research assistants and visiting scholars/students to join us. Talents with relevant backgrounds, such as electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, materials science, chemistry, physics, mechanics, artificial intelligence and others, are preferred. My research funding is sufficient to support your research in my group. If interested, please send your CV to Dr. Yiming Liu by liuyiming@must.edu.mo.
