Academic Staff

Dr. Liang LIU received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2014. He was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Toronto from 2015 to 2017, a research fellow at NUS from 2017 to 2019, and an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) from 2019 to 2024. Currently, he is an associate professor in the Department of EEE at PolyU. His research interests include wireless communications and networking, advanced signal processing and optimization techniques, and Internet-of-Things (IoT).

Dr. Liang LIU is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for the class of 2025-2026. He is the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, the 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the Best Student Paper Award for 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), and the Best Paper Award for 2011 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP). He was listed in Highly Cited Researchers, also known as World's Most Influential Scientific Minds, by Clarivate Analytics (Thomson Reuters) in 2018. He is an editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and was a leading guest editor for IEEE Wireless Communications special issue on "Massive Machine-Type Communications for IoT". He is a co-author of the book "Next Generation Multiple Access" published at Wiley-IEEE Press.

• Doctor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore

• Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers