Hui Liu

Dr. Hui Liu is an American scholar and an entrepreneur in the field of wireless and satellite communications. He is a prolific researcher with more than 200 scholarly articles and 2 textbooks, and a creative innovator with 67 awarded patents in areas ranging from wireless systems, signal processing, satellite networks, to machine learning. He has more than 17,000 paper citations and an H-index of 66 as of 2025. Dr. Liu is also one of the principal designers of three industrial standards on cellular networks, terrestrial broadcasting, and satellite communications, respectively.

Biography Liu graduated from Fudan University of Shanghai, China with B.Sc degree in electrical engineering in 1988 and obtained master's degree at Portland State University. By 1995 he completed his Ph.D. in the same field as well from the University of Texas at Austin. From September of the same year till July 1998 Liu worked at the University of Virginia as a tenure-track assistant professor. After that, he joined the Electrical Engineering department of University of Washington where he became a tenured Full Professor and the Associate Chair of Research. From 2013 to 2016, he was the ZhiYuan Chair Professor and the Associate Dean at School of Electronic, Information & Electrical Engineering (SEIEE) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He worked as a chief scientist at Cwill Telecom and was one of the principal designers of the 3G TD-SCDMA technologies. He founded Adaptix in 2000 and pioneered the development of OFDMA-based mobile broadband cellular networks (mobile WiMAX and 4G LTE).