Sheng Liu is a ChangJiang Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He holds a dual appointment at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, and has served as tenured faculty at Wayne State University. He has over 14 years experience in LED/MEMS/IC packaging and extensive experience in consulting with many leading multi-national and Chinese companies. Liu was awarded the White House/NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1995, ASME Young Engineer Award in 1996, and China NSFC Overseas Young Scientist in 1999. He is currently one of the 11 National Committee Members in LED under Ministry of Science and Technology. He obtained a Ph.D. from Stanford in 1992, and got MS and BS in flight vehicle design, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and he had three years industrial experience in China and USA. He has filed more than 70 patents in China and the USA, and has published more than 300 technical articles.

Yong Liu is a global team leader of electrical, thermal-mechanical modeling and analysis at Fairchild Semiconductor Corp in South Portland, Maine. His main interest areas are IC packaging, modeling and simulation, reliability and material characterization. He has previously served as Professor at Zhejiang University of Technology, and has worked as an opto package engineer at Nortel Networks in Boston. Liu has co-authored over 100 papers in journals and conferences, has filed over 40 US patents in the area of IC packaging and power device, and has won numerous awards and fellowships in academia and industry: the Fairchild President Award, Fairchild Key Technologist, Fairchild New Product Innovation Award, the Alexander von Humboldt European Fellowship for study at Braunschweig University of Technology and University of Cambridge. Liu holds a PhD from Nanjing University of Science and Technology.