Hongzhou Liu received the B.S. degree from Peking University, Beijing, China, the M.S. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in 1997, 1999, and 2004, respectively.

He is currently with Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA, USA, involved in the areas of analog design automation and statistical variation aware design methodology. He holds ten U.S. patents related to analog and statistical design automation.

Mr. Liu was the recipient of the Best Paper Award from the Design Automation Conference in 2002.