Shih-Chii Liu  Shih-Chii Liu is a professor at the University of Zürich and is the co-leader of the Sensors Group at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zürich / ETH Zürich. Her research interests include developing algorithms and networks using knowledge obtained from neuroscience. Liu pursued a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received her PhD in 1997 from California Institute of Technology from the department of Computation and Neural Systems . A year later she joined the Sensors Group at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, a group which is also affiliated with the Neuroscience Center Zurich . Liu is a past chair of the IEEE CAS Neural Systems and Applications, and IEEE Sensory Systems Technical Committees . She is currently a chair of the IEEE CAS/ED Swiss Chapter, and is an associate editor for the Neural Networks Journal, and the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, among others. Liu is the lead author of two textbooks on Neuromorphic engineering: "Analog VLSI: Circuits and Principles" (MIT Press, 2002) and "Event‐Based Neuromorphic Systems" (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015).