Biography
Yuanwei Liu is a (tenured) full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) since September 1st, 2024. Prior to that, he was a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) (Aug. 2021- Aug. 2024) and a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) (Sept. 2017- July 2021) at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), London, U.K, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Sep. 2016- Aug. 2017) at King’s College London (KCL), London, U.K. He received the Ph.D. degree from QMUL in 2016. He currently serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE ComSoc TC NewsLetter, an Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Communications Letters, an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, and IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of AAIA, a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, an IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Lecturer, and an IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer. He was listed as one of [35 Innovators Under 35 China in 2022 by MIT Technology Review], is the recipient of the [2024 Early Career Researcher Award from Queen Mary Research and Innovation],the [2020 IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle East and Africa Region], the [2020 Early Achievement Award of the IEEE ComSoc – Signal Processing and Computing for Communications (SPCC) Technical Committee], and the recipient of the [2021 IEEE CTTC Early Achievement Awards]. He is the co-recipient of the [2024 IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award], the Best Student Paper Award in IEEE VTC2022-Fall, the Best Paper Award in ISWCS 2022, the 2022 IEEE SPCC-TC Best Paper Award, the 2023 IEEE ICCT Best Paper Award, and the 2023 IEEE ISAP Best Emerging Technologies Paper Award.
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Selected Publications
- Y. Liu, Z. Qin, M. Elkashlan, Z. Ding, A. Nallanathan and L. Hanzo, “Nonorthogonal Multiple Access for 5G and Beyond,” in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 105, no. 12, pp. 2347-2381, Dec. 2017, doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2017.2768666.
- Y. Liu et al., “Evolution of NOMA Toward Next Generation Multiple Access (NGMA) for 6G,” in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 1037-1071, April 2022, doi: 10.1109/JSAC.2022.3145234.
- Y. Liu et al., “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Principles and Opportunities,” in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 1546-1577, thirdquarter 2021, doi: 10.1109/COMST.2021.3077737.
- J. Xu, Liu, X. Mu and O. A. Dobre, “STAR-RISs: Simultaneous Transmitting and Reflecting Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces,” in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 25, no. 9, pp. 3134-3138, Sept. 2021, doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2021.3082214.