Yuan Du (S’14-M’17-SM’21) received his B.S. degree with honor from Southeast University (SEU), Nanjing, China, in 2009, and his M.S. and his Ph.D. degree both from Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 2012 and 2016, respectively. Since 2019, he has been with Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, as an Associate Professor. Previously, he worked on edge AI accelerators in Kneron Corporation, San Diego, CA, USA from 2016 to 2019, as a leading hardware architect. He has authored or co-authored more than 40 technical papers in international journals and conferences and holds over 10 US patents. His current research interests include designs of machine-learning hardware accelerators, high-speed inter-chip/intra-chip interconnects, and RFICs. He was the recipient of the Microsoft Research Asia Young Fellow (2008), Southeast University Chancellor’s Award (2009), Broadcom Young Fellow (2015), and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award (2021).