Brief Biography

Dr. Liu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University (MSU). Before joining MSU, he held positions at the University of Michigan, National (Yang Ming) Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and Qualcomm, Inc. He received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University, M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Liu has received several prestigious awards for his contributions to research and education, including the Faculty Fellowship Award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (2023), the Young Scholar Research Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (2015), and Best Paper Awards from the IEEE Globecom Conference (2008, 2014). His research interests span machine and deep learning, cybersecurity, communications and signal processing, and decision and control. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and serves as an editor for several IEEE journals, including IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.

Recent News

• Our research results on Secure and Privacy-Preserving ISAC Using Hybrid-Actor Deep Reinforcement Learning have been completed and submitted for journal publication in IEEE, Oct., 2025.

• We completed work on Deep Contextual Bandits for Efficient and Secure Semantic Communications and submitted it for journal publication in IEEE, Sep., 2025.

• Our paper, "Computing Power and Battery Charging Management for Solar Energy Powered Edge Computing," was published in IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, Mar. 2025.

• Our paper, "Underwater Acoustic Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: From Principle to Practice," was accepted and will be published in IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, 2025.