Zilong LIU (劉子龍)
Associate Professor (UK Senior Lecturer)
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE), University of Essex,
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom.
Email: zilong.liu[at]essex.ac.uk
Welcome to my Google page. If you are interested in my research, please feel free to drop me an email.
I am always looking for highly motivated students, visitors, and collaborators for the exciting communication research. If you have obtained (or close to) a PhD and wish to work with me as a postdoc researcher, there are a number of excellent Fellowships in UK or EU that we may jointly explore ([see my Essex page here]). If you have curiosity to the number 2357, please check here.
I am very open to many forms of collaborations and firmly believe that modern academic life is more about how to engage with, energize and inspire a large number of scholars and engineers to meet ever-growing new challenges.
Research Interests:
My research lies in the interplay of coding, signal processing, and communications, with emphasis on signal design, algebraic coding, error correction codes, iterative receiver design, as well as robust/efficient multiuser communications. I am extremely interested in attacking research problems that arise in practical communication and/or signal processing scenarios and in closing the gap between theoretical bounds and the achievable in hands-on implementations. At this stage, I am specifically interested in the following topics.
Code-domain NOMA (e.g., sparse code multiple access) - Media Report by Futurum;
Ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) for 5G and beyond;
6G V2X communications (e.g., in high mobility environments or hybrid VLC/RF V2X);
Integrated sensing, localization, and communications for 6G;
Signal (e.g., codebooks/sequences/waveforms) design and analysis;
Error correction codes (e.g., LDPC, Turbo, Polar, RS+BCH);
Iterative receiver design and graph-based inference;
Detection and estimation (e.g., blind detection/estimation);
Communications for infrastructureless networks;
Machine learning/AI and compressed sensing for communications.
In addition, with project experiences shown below, I am also greatly interested in
physical layer receiver design (e.g., time-/carrier-frequency/sampling-clock synchronizations, channel estimation, equilization) for wireless communications based on Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) & FPGA, Software Defined Radio (SDR) [e.g., USRP2] and Embedded system (e.g., ARM, DSP, etc).