Fan Liu is currently an Assistant Professor of the School of System Design and Intelligent Manufacturing, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China. He received the Ph.D. and the BEng. degrees from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing, China, in 2018 and 2013, respectively. He has previously held academic positions in the University College London (UCL), London, UK, first as a Visiting Researcher from 2016 to 2018, and then as a Marie Curie Research Fellow from 2018 to 2020. Dr. Liu's research interests lie in the general area of signal processing and wireless communications, and in particular in the area of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC). He has 10 papers selected as IEEE ComSoc Best Readings. He is the founding Academic Chair of the IEEE ComSoc ISAC Emerging Technology Initiative (ISAC-ETI), an elected member of the IEEE SPS Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee (SAM-TC), a founding member of the IEEE SPS ISAC Technical Working Group (ISAC-TWG), an Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing and the IEEE Communications Letters, the Lead Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), and a Guest Editor of the IEEE Wireless Communications and IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. He has served as the organizer and Co-Chair for several workshops, special sessions and tutorials in flagship IEEE conferences, including ICC, GLOBECOM, ICASSP, SPAWC, and MobiCom. He is a TPC Co-Chair of the 2nd-4th IEEE Joint Communication and Sensing (JC&S) Symposium, and a Track Co-Chair for the IEEE WCNC 2024. He is a member of the IMT-2030 (6G) ISAC Task Group. He was listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University for citation impact from 2021 to 2023. He was the recipient of the 2023 IEEE Communications Society Stephan O. Rice Prize, 2023 IEEE ICC Best Paper Award, 2023 IEEE/CIC ICCC 2023 Best Paper Award, 2022 First Prize of Science and Technology Progress of China Institue of Communications, 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, 2019 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award of Chinese Institute of Electronics, 2018 EU Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, and has been named as an Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE TWC/TCOM/COMML for 5 times. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Education Background

Ph.D. in Electronics Science & Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, 2013 - 2018

Bachelor of Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, 2009 - 2013

Working Experience

Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, China, 2020 - Now

Marie Curie Research Fellow, University College London, UK, 2018 - 2020

Research Assistant, University College London, UK, 2016 - 2018

Research Area

6G Wireless Communications

Integrated Sensing and Communications

MIMO Radar Signal Processing

Vehicular Networks and Intelligent Transportation

Publications

[1] Yifeng Xiong, Fan Liu*, Weijie Yuan et al., “Information-Theoretic Limits of Integrated Sensing and Communications”, Science China: Information Sciences, vol. 53, no. 11, pp. 2057-2086, Nov. 2023. (in Chinese).

[2] Yifeng Xiong, Fan Liu*, Yuanhao Cui, Weijie Yuan, Tony Xiao Han, and Giuseppe Caire, “On the Fundamental Tradeoff of Integrated Sensing and Communications Under Gaussian Channels”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 5723-5751, Sept. 2023. (IEEE TIT Popular Article Top 5)

[3] Fan Liu, Le Zheng, Yuanhao Cui, Christos Masouros, Athina P. Petropulu, Hugh Griffiths, and Yonina C. Eldar, “Seventy Years of Radar and Communications: The Road from Separation to Integration,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 106-121, July 2023. (Invited by the IEEE SPM Special Issue on the 75th Anniversary of the IEEE Signal Processing Society)

[4] Fan Liu, Yuanhao Cui, Christos Masouros, Jie Xu, Tony Xiao Han, Yonina C. Eldar, and Stefano Buzzi, “Integrated Sensing and Communications: Towards Dual-functional Wireless Networks for 6G and Beyond,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1728-1767, June 2022. (IEEE JSAC Popular Article Top 1, ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[5] Fan Liu, Ya-Feng Liu, Ang Li, Christos Masouros, and Yonina C. Eldar, “Cramér-Rao Bound Optimization for Joint Radar-Communication Beamforming,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 70, pp. 240-253, Jan. 2022. (IEEE TSP Popular Article Top 10, ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[6] Fan Liu, Weijie Yuan, Christos Masouros, and Jinhong Yuan, “Radar-assisted Predictive Beamforming for Vehicular Links: Communication Served by Sensing,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 7704-7719, Nov. 2020. (IEEE TWC Popular Article Top 50)

[7] Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Athina Petropulu, Hugh Griffiths, Lajos Hanzo, “Joint Radar and Communication Design: Applications, State-of-the-art and the Road Ahea,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 3834-3862, June. 2020. (2023 IEEE ComSoc Stephan O. Rice Prize，ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[8] Fan Liu, Longfei Zhou, Christos Masouros, Ang Li, Wu Luo, Athina Petropulu, “Toward Dual-functional Radar-Communication Systems: Optimal Waveform Design,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 66, no. 16, pp. 4264-4279, Aug. 2018. (2021 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award, ESI Highly Cited Paper）

[9] Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Ang Li, Tharmalingam Ratnarajah, and Jianming Zhou, “MIMO Radar and Cellular Coexistence: A Power-Efficient Approach Enabled by Interference Exploitation,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 66, no. 14, pp. 3681-3695, Jul. 2018. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[10] Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Ang Li, Huafei Sun and Lajos Hanzo, “MU-MIMO Communications with MIMO Radar: From Co-existence to Joint Transmission,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 2755-2770, April 2018. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

Awards

IEEE Communications Society Stephan O. Rice Prize, 2023

IEEE ICC Best Paper Award, 2023

IEEE/CIC ICCC Best Paper Award, 2023

First Prize of Science and Technology Progress of China Institute of Communications, 2022

Guangdong Province "Pearl River" Young Talent Support Program, 2022

World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University for citation impact, 2021-2023

China Association for Sci & Tech (CAST) Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program, 2022

IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, 2021

Overseas High-Caliber Personnel of Shenzhen (Peacock Plan), 2021

Young Scholars Publishing Project in Frontiers of Electronic & Information Science, 2020

Best Doctoral Thesis Award, Chinese Institute of Electronics, 2019

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF), 2018

Best Doctoral Thesis Award, Beijing Institute of Technology, 2018