Yao-Hong Liu

Scientific Director at Imec
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Yao-Hong Liu is currently Scientific Director at imec. He is a recipient of European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant. He is also a guest professor at Delft University of Technology. His current research focuses on wireless communication and edge computation for implantable brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and IoT applications.Dr. Liu received his Ph.D. degree from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2009. He was with Terax, Via Telecom (now Intel), and Mobile Devices, Taiwan, from 2002 to 2010, developing wireless transceiver ICs. Since 2010, he joined imec, the Netherlands, and is leading the research of the ultra-low power ASIC design. He received the IEEE Brain and Solid-State Circuits joint-society best paper award honorable mention 2022. He is currently a steering committee member of IEEE RFIC symposium.

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Authored articles

Stylized brain with digital circuitry and a neural chip, suggesting brain-signal telemetry and wireless data transfer

Neural telemetry breakthrough: new chip delivers ten-fold compression while preserving signal integrity

02/07/2026
Research update
Neurotechnology

Neuromorphic compression technology lays the foundation for scalable brain-computer interfaces (BCIs)

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Glowing digital brain surrounded by circuit-like lines in blue and magenta

Fast forward to a new generation of miniature, wireless, high-density brain implants

26/10/2023
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Neurotechnology

Recent advances in implant miniaturization, wireless high-rate data transfer, and data compression

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