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Junrui Liang received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in instrumentation engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical and automation engineering from The Chinese University Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, in 2010. He is an Assistant Professor with the School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China, since 2013. His research interests include energy conversion and power conditioning circuits, kinetic energy harvesting and vibration suppression, mechatronics, and IoT devices. His research has led to publications of more than 70 technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings and filed four China patents. Dr. Liang is an Associate Editor of IET Circuits, Devices, and Systems and the General Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Vibration and Energy Harvesting Applications (VEH 2019). He is a member of the Technical Committee of Power and Energy Circuits and Systems (PECAS) in IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS), and the Energy Harvesting Technical Committee (EHTC) in Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Branch, ASME Aerospace Division. He has also served as a Program Committee Member in SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation Conference. He was a recipient of one Best Student Contributions Award in the 19th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies, two Best Paper Awards in the IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, the Postgraduate Research Output Award from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Excellent Research Award 2018 from ShanghaiTech University.