Dr. Junrui Liang is a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Information Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Automation Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, in 2010. 

 

Dr. Liang has an interdisciplinary research and working experience in smart materials and structures, power electronics, and IoT systems and applications. His research interests include electromechanical dynamics, mechatronics, power conversion circuits and systems, low-energy IoT systems, renewable energy, etc. As of May 2025, Dr. Liang has authored and co-authored more than 180 peer-reviewed technical papers in international journals and conferences. He is ranked among the world’s top 2% scientists in the lists released by Stanford University and Elsevier. He and his students have received several best paper awards in conferences such as ICAST 2008, IEEE ICIA 2009 & 2010, ASME SMASIS 2020, VEH 2021, 2022+1, & 2024, IEEE IESES 2023, SMSS 2023, and IEEE ISCAS 2024. In 2022, Dr. Liang and his colleagues founded ViPSN Ltd. (vipsn.cc), a small business focusing on self-powered IoT systems and applications.

 

Dr. Liang has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs and IET Circuits, Devices & Systems. He was the General Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Vibration and Energy Harvesting Applications (VEH 2019) and the Track Chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in 2023 and 2024. Dr. Liang is currently the Chair of the Energy Harvesting Technical Committee (EHTC) in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures, and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) Division, and the Secretary of the Power and Energy Circuits and Systems (PECAS) Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS). He has been a member of the Technical Program Committee for the SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Conference since 2016 and the International Conference on Vibration and Energy Harvesting Applications since 2018. Dr. Liang is a Fellow of the ASME, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2025-2026).