Teaching Staff

Dr Liu is currently a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr Liu received his BSc (1st Hons), MPhil, and PhD degrees in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) in 2005, 2007 and 2014 respectively.

Dr Liu has more than 10 years of experience working in the tertiary education sector and is experienced in teaching in sub-degree, bachelor, and postgraduate levels for a variety of subjects, including programming, information security, software engineering, computer networking and multimedia. Dr Liu was conferred the Faculty Outstanding Award in Teaching (Team) 2021/22, the Faculty Merit Award in Teaching (Individual) 2019/20 at PolyU and the Outstanding Teacher Award 2011 at the HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKU SPACE). Dr Liu is experienced in providing trainings in cybersecurity/blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT). In 2019 - 2021, Dr Liu provided training on blockchain technologies to over 1,500 staff of the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO), HKSAR.

Dr Liu is experienced in academic programme development, ranging from short courses to postgraduate programmes. Dr Liu is currently the Deputy Programme Leader of BSc (Hons) Scheme in Computing – Computing Stream at PolyU. Due to his familiarity with quality assurance of academic programmes, Dr Liu was involved in various accreditation exercises and is the External Examiner/Academic Assessor of a number of IT and cybersecurity programmes of HKU SPACE and Hong Kong College of Technology. Dr Liu is also engaged in funded teaching and learning (T&L) projects to enhance cyber security education in the university. His research in cybersecurity education was conferred the Best Paper Award in IEEE TALE 2019.

Acting as the project investigator and technical consultant of a number of Blockchain/DLT industrial research and consultancy projects, Dr Liu is responsible for providing professional advices on the underlying cryptographic algorithms and protocols, as well as managing teams of engineers for the concrete implementations of crypto-libraries and blockchain-based application systems.

As the principal investigator (PI) of a number of T&L, research and consultancy projects, Dr Liu oversees projects with a total budget of over HKD5,500,000 since 2017.