Ming Liu is a senior research hardware engineer working on Project Brainwave/Catapult in the AI and Advanced Architectures Group, Microsoft, leveraging FPGAs to accelerate machine learning applications in the cloud. His primary research interests include hardware design, machine learning, application-specific accelerators, embedded systems, and computer architecture. Prior to joining Microsoft Research, he was a research assistant at MIT, where he was a core member of the BlueDBM Project. He has an MS in computer science from MIT and a BASc in computer engineering from the University of Toronto. Contact him at mliu@microsoft.com.