Professor Yuanwei LIU
劉元瑋
YFHKEng [2025]
Full Professor, The University of Hong Kong; Visiting Professor, Queen Mary University of London
- Fellow, IEEE, 2023
- Fellow, AAIA, 2023
- Fellow, AIIA, 2025
- ESI Highly Cited Researcher, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
- Exemplary Editor, IEEE TNSE, 2025
- Exemplary Editor, IEEE TCCN, 2024
- Heinrich Hertz Award, IEEE ComSoc, 2024
- Early Career Researcher, Queen Mary Research and Innovation, 2024
- Excellent Editor, IEEE TNSE, 2023
- Best Paper Award, IEEE ICCT, 2023
- Young Scientist Award, UCOM, 2023
- One of 35 Innovators, MIT Technology Review, 2023
- Top Electronics and Electrical Engineering Scientists, 2023, 2022
- The AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars, 2023, 2022
- Best Paper Award, IEEE SPCC TC, 2022
- Best Paper Award, ISWCS 2022, 2022
- Best Student Paper Award, IEEE VTC, 2022
- Young Scientist Award, URSI, 2022
- Top 2% Scientists, Stanford University, 2021, 2020
- Young Professional Outstanding Nominee, IEEE ComSoc, 2021
- Early Achievement Awards, IEEE CTTC, 2021
- Outstanding Young Researcher Award, IEEE ComSoc, 2020
- Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Communication Society
- Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
- Area Editor, iEEE TCOM, 2024
- Vice Chair, IEEE SPCC, 2023
- UK representative, URSI, 1st 2023 to August
- Associate Editor, EEE COMST, 2023
- Rapporteur, ESTI, 2023
- EiC, IEEE ComSoc TC NewsLetter, 2023
- Associate Editor, IEEE TNSE, 2023
- Vice Chair, IEEE TCCN, 2023
- Secretary, IEEE SPCC, 2022
- Symposium Co-chair, IEEE GLOBECOM, 2022
- Senior Editor, IEEE CL, 2021
- Editor, IEEE TWC, 2021
- Tutorials and Invited Presentations Officers, IEEE ComSoc RIS ETI, 2020
- Vice Chair, IEEE ComSoc RISE for WTC-SIG, 2020
Yuanwei Liu (S'13-M'16-SM'19-F’24, https://www.eee.hku.hk/~yuanwei/) is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of AAIA, a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, an IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Lecturer, an IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer, the rapporteur of ETSI Industry Specification Group on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces on work item of “Multi-functional Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS): Modelling, Optimisation, and Operation”, and the UK representative for the URSI Commission C on “Radio communication Systems and Signal Processing” (2023-2024). He was listed as one of 35 Innovators Under 35 China in 2022 by MIT Technology Review. He received IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Young Researcher Award for EMEA in 2020. He received the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing and Computing for Communications (SPCC) Technical Committee Early Achievement Award, IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) 2021 Early Achievement Award. He received IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Nominee for Best Young Professionals Award in 2021. 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. He 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 Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. He serves as the (leading) Guest Editor for Proceedings of the IEEE on Next Generation Multiple Access, IEEE JSAC on Next Generation Multiple Access, IEEE JSTSP on Intelligent Signal Processing and Learning for Next Generation Multiple Access, and IEEE Network on Next Generation Multiple Access for 6G. He serves as the Publicity Co-Chair for IEEE VTC 2019-Fall, the Panel Co-Chair for IEEE WCNC 2024, Symposium Co-Chair for several flagship conferences such as IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC and VTC. He serves the academic Chair for the Next Generation Multiple Access Emerging Technology Initiative, vice chair of SPCC and Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) (2023-2024).
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) (Aug. 2021- Aug. 2024), Queen Mary University of London; Lecturer (Assistant Professor) (Sept. 2017- July 2021), Queen Mary University of London; Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Sep. 2016- Aug. 2017), King's College London
PhD
Queen Mary University of London
2016
Telephone Number (Office)
+852 6876 8952
Telephone Number (Mobile)
+852 3917 8403
Address
Rm 605, Chow Yei Ching Building, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.