Dr. Shiyu Xie received the B.S. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2007, and the Ph.D degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK, in 2012. From 2012 to 2014, she was with Huawei Corporation as a Research Engineer. In 2014, she returned to Sheffield as a Postdoctoral fellow working on next generation avalanche photodiodes. From 2016, she joined School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University. Between 2017 and Feb. 2021, she is a research fellow at Cardiff sponsored by the European Regional Development Fund through Welsh government Ser Cymru Fellowship Program, leading and developing a novel antimony-based solid-state material system and sensors. She is now the technical director of the Advanced Micro-semi. Ltd. Dr. Xie is an author or co-author of over 20 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference papers, and 6 Chinese and international patents. She has received a number of prize and research awards, including Huawei Golden Network Prize and Huawei Hisilicon Research Fund, UK Innovate Fund and Studentship Award from Chinese Scholarship Council.