Greetings! This is Tim S. Liang | 梁爽

Currently, I’m a research post graduate student at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, working with the very nice Prof. Han Wang. Before HKU, I obtained my Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, advised by Prof. Shengjun Yuan and Prof. Shunping Zhang. I also spent a wonderful time as a Machine Learning Engineer intern at Beijing Rama Alpaca Technology Company under the supervision of Dr. Guo Zhang and in collaboration with Prof. Yingcong Chen and Prof. Yuan Yuan in the last semester of my undergraduate study.

I am dedicated to becoming a full-stack engineer in the field of Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE), as I have bottom-up experiences from AI perception algorithms, electronic system architecture, and device physics. My research interests fall into the field of AI accelerator and in-memory computing systems based on emerging memory devices, focusing on the co-design of efficient hardware architectures and efficient algorithms to enhance system performance and energy efficiency, while also exploring model compression (distillation and quantization) and deep learning algorithm development for resource-constrained environments.

Please contact me via:

Email: tsliang2001@gmail.com or sliang57@connect.hku.hk or liangshuang@whu.edu.cn

You may also follow my WeChat Official Account @Teemo.log, it’s a place for me to update some pieces of my daily life and share some of my ideas. (Articles from my WeChat Official Account are Chinese only.)

What’s new:

[Sep. 1st, 2025] 🍻IEDM ‘25: One paper Accepted by IEDM 2025! Thank Professor Han Wang, Professor Aoyang Zhang, and Professor Zhongrui Wang for their invaluable guidance! Thank Songqi and Jichang for the smooth collaboration.
[Jan. 9th, 2025] 🍻Optica Optics Express ‘25: One paper for my undergraduate research accepted by Optics Express! Thank Professor Zhang for his invaluable guidance! Thank Yuze and Haimu for their collaboration and support!
[June 22nd, 2024] 🎓Graduation@WHU: Received my Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Wuhan University. I am more than grateful to have received guidance and enlightenment in computational physics and AI4Sci from Prof. Shengjun Yuan, and guidance in experimental optoelectronics from Prof. Shunping Zhang in my undergraduate studies.
[Feb. 2nd, 2024] 🧑‍💻Internship@Rama Alpaca: I just started to be an MLE research intern at Beijing Rama Alpaca Co. Ltd. in the spring semester under the supervision of Dr. Guo Zhang from MIT, collaborating with Prof. Yingcong Chen@HKUST and Prof. Yuan Yuan@Boston College.
[Feb. 9th, 2023] 🧑‍💻Research@CPCS-WHU: I’ve joined Prof. Shengjun Yuan’s group at Wuhan University as a research assistant this semester!
[Feb. 14th, 2022] 🔬Research@Xu Lab-WHU: I’ve just joined Prof. Shunping Zhang’s lab at Wuhan University for undergraduate research!

Education

	Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. Ph.D./MPhil in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Research: AI accelerator and in-memory computing systems (Oct. 2024 - Present)
	School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University. B.S. in Physics Dissertation: Constructing Tight-binding Model Based on Deep Learning (Sept. 2020 - Jun. 2024)

Featured Publications

†These authors contributed equally. *Corresponding author.

Coming Soon Conference submissions: • ICLR — under submission [Paper (TBA)]	Coming Soon
2. "A Monolithic Reconfigurable RRAM CIM Array Integrating PUF, TRNG, and a Lightweight Block Cipher for Secure Edge AI", Songqi Wang†, Shuang Liang†, Shaonan Wu†, Zhiqi Yang, Jichang Yang, Xinyuan Zhang, Yi Li, Yuhao Zhang*, Zhongrui Wang*, Aoyang Zhang* and Han Wang*. $International\ Electron\ Devices\ Meeting\ (IEDM)\ 2025$. [Paper (TBA)]
1. "Saturable Absorption of Few-layer $\mathrm{WS_{2}}$ and $\mathrm{WSe_{2}}$ at Exciton Resonance", Shuang Liang, Yuze Lu, Haimu Liu, Xiaohe Shang, Jiamin Ji, Rongguang Du, Yiling Yu and Shunping Zhang*. $Optica\ Optics\ Express$ (JCR Q1, CAS Q2). [PDF][Optica Online]

Featured Open-source Projects (Github)

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Interesting facts about myself

• In Chinese context, my name has the same meaning of the word “cool”, which refers to the pleasant weather of the season I was born. It’s actually a girly name so that people often mistake me as a girl before they meet me. My preferred name is Tim, which is my English name but not part of my legal name.
• I spent my childhood and adolescence along the majestic Yellow River, where the waters whispered tales of ancient civilizations. My college years unfolded beside the mighty Yangtze River, a flowing testament to China’s enduring spirit and progress. Now, I find myself working beside the vibrant Pearl River, where the currents echo the pulse of modernity and innovation.
• Music fills my spare time in daily life. I love country music and Chinese folk, despite I can’t play guitar well. I also love EDM and am a big fan of Kygo, Martin Garrix, The Chainsmokers, and Avicii. I’m also a fan of Taylor Swift, Adele, Billie Eilish, and Beyoncé. You can always find interesting topics with me regarding music from various genres.
• My MBTI personality is INFP, so please forgive me if I seem shy and introverted at first. I become pretty outgoing once we get to know each other.