Liao I-chiu (Chinese: 廖一久; pinyin: Liào Yījiǔ) (b. Nov. 4, 1936) is a Taiwanese academic who specializes in commercial aquatic animal breeding and aquaculture.
[1] Liao was born in Tokyo to Taiwanese parents on 4 November 1936,[2] and moved to Taiwan at the age of four.
[3] In the late 1960s Liao played an important role in developing methods to farm tiger shrimp.
[4] Liao is a fellow at Academia Sinica and The World Academy of Sciences and a distinguished professor at National Taiwan Ocean University.
[1] In 2014 Liao was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette by the Japanese Government.