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, his M.S. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his 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 Young Investigator 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

• I will be joining the ECE department at Texas Tech University this August!

• We have submitted the following three papers to the 2026 IEEE Globecom Conference: (i) Position-Agile ISAC with Fluid Antennas: Diversity-Overhead Frontier and Effective DoF), (ii) Distributed Information-Form Kalman Filtering for Cooperative ISAC, and (iii) Position Control Meets Fluid-Antenna ISAC: Rate-Estimation-Overhead Tradeoffs.

• Our paper, entitled "Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning for Hybrid Beamforming in Cooperative UAV-ISAC Networks," was accepted for presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2026.

• Our paper, entitled "Hybrid Actor DRL for Secrecy Optimization in RIS-Aided IAB Networks with DAM," was accepted for presentation at the IEEE ICC, May 2026.

• Our paper, entitled "Secure and Privacy-Preserving ISAC in RIS-Aided IAB Networks with Delay Alignment Modulation," was accepted for presentation at the IEEE ICC, May 2026.