Yuanwei Liu

Professor

Education Background

Educational Background：

  • 2013-2016：Queen Mary University of London, Electronic Engineering, Ph.D. (Full-time)

 

Work Experience：

  • 2026-Present: Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twin Lab, Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, Vice-Director
  • 2024-Present: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Professor
  • 2024-Present: School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London,  Visiting Professor
  • 2021-2024: School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, Associate Professor
  • 2017-2021: School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, Assistant Professor
  • 2016-2017: King's College London, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Field
Pinching-Antenna Systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Communications/Sensing for Low Altitude Economy, Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)，Generative AI/LLM for Communications, Mobile Edge Generation (MEG), Deep Learning for Communications
Email
yuanwei@hku.hk
Biography

Yuanwei Liu, Ph.D., is a tenured full Professor at The University of Hong Kong and a visiting professor at Queen Mary University of London. His core research focuses on Generative AI/LLM for Communications, Pinching-Antenna Systems, UAV Communications/Sensing for Low Altitude Economy, and is an IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, and Highly Cited Researcher, with awards including the IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Young Researcher Award. Collaboration and student applications in wireless communications, AI, and integrated sensing and communications are welcome.

Academic Publications

Representative Publications (past 5-10 years, in order of impact)：

[1] Liu Y, Ouyang C, Wang Z, Xu J, Mu X, Swindlehurst AL. Near-Field Communications: A Comprehensive Survey. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2025, 27(3): 1687-1728 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2024.3475884).

[2] Liu Y, Liu X, Mu X, Hou T, Xu J, Di Renzo M, Al-Dhahir N. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Principles and Opportunities. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2021, 23(3): 1546-1577 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2021.3077737).

[3] Liu Y, Ouyang C, Ding Z, Schober R. The Road to Next-Generation Multiple Access: A 50-Year Tutorial Review. Proceedings of the IEEE, 2024, 112(9): 1100-1148 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2024.3476675).

[4] Liu Y, Qin Z, Elkashlan M, Ding Z, Nallanathan A, Hanzo L. Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for 5G and Beyond. Proceedings of the IEEE, 2017 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2017.2768666).

[5] Liu Y, Zhang S, Mu X, Ding Z, Schober R, Al-Dhahir N, Hossain E, Shen X. Evolution of NOMA Toward Next Generation Multiple Access (NGMA) for 6G. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2022, 40(4): 1037-1071 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2022.3145234).

[6] Liu Y, Ouyang C, Wang Z, Xu J, Mu X, Schober R. Near-Field Communications: A Tutorial Review. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2023, 4: 1999-2049 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/OJCOMS.2023.3305583).

[7] Liu Y, Ouyang C, Wang Z, Xu J, Mu X, Ding Z. CAPA: Continuous-Aperture Arrays for Revolutionizing 6G Wireless Communications. IEEE Wireless Communications, 2025, 32(4): 38-45 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.001.2400493).

[8] Liu Y, Xu J, Wang Z, Mu X, Hanzo L. Near-field Communications: What Will Be Different? IEEE Wireless Communications, 2025, 32(2): 262-270 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.001.2300588).

[9] Liu Y, Mu X, Xu J, Schober R, Hao Y, Poor HV, Hanzo L. STAR: Simultaneous Transmission And Reflection for 360 Coverage by Intelligent Surfaces. IEEE Wireless Communications, 2021, 28(6): 102-109 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.001.2100191).

[10] Liu Y, Liu X, Gao X, Mu X, Zhou X, Dobre O, Poor HV. Robotic Communications for 5G and Beyond: Challenges and Research Opportunities. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2021, 59(10): 92-98 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.111.2001118).

[11] Liu Y, Yi W, Ding Z, Liu X, Dobre O, Al-Dhahir N. Developing NOMA to Next Generation Multiple Access: Future Vision and Research Opportunities. IEEE Wireless Communications, 2022, 29(6): 120-127 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.007.2100553).

[12] Liu Y, Mu X, Liu X, Di Renzo M, Ding Z, Schober R. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) Aided Multi-User Networks: Interplay Between NOMA and RIS. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2022, 29(2): 169-176 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.102.2100363).

[13] Liu Y, Qin Z, Cai Y, Gao Y, Li GY, Nallanathan A. UAV Communications Based Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access. IEEE Wireless Communications, 2019, 26(1): 52-57 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2018.1800196).

[14] Liu Y, Ding Z, Elkashlan M, Poor HV. Cooperative Non-orthogonal Multiple Access with Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2016, 34(4): 938-953 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2016.2549378).

[15] Liu Y, Qin Z, Elkashlan M, Gao Y, Hanzo L. Enhancing the Physical Layer Security of Non-orthogonal Multiple Access in Large-scale Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2017, 16(3): 1656-1672 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2017.2650987).

[16] Liu Y, Qin Z, Elkashlan M, Nallanathan A, McCann JA. Non-orthogonal Multiple Access in Large-Scale Heterogeneous Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2017, 35(12): 2667-2680 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2017.2726718).

[17] Liu Y, Wang Z, Mu X, et al. Pinching-Antenna Systems: Architecture Designs, Opportunities, and Outlook. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2026, 64(1): 190-196 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.001.2500037).

[18] Wang Z, Ouyang C, Mu X, Liu Y, Ding Z. Modeling and Beamforming Optimization for Pinching-Antenna Systems. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2025, 73(12): 13904-13919 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2025.3621049).

[19] Ouyang C, Wang Z, Zhang X, Liu Y. Linear Receive Beamforming for CAPA Systems. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2026, 25(1): 1030-1047 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2025.3588626).

[20] Xiao J, Wang J, Liu Y. Channel Estimation for Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS). IEEE Communications Letters, 2025, 29(8): 1789-1793 (SCI Q1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2025.3575166).

Books/Monographs：

  1. "Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Massive Connectivity", Springer, 2019, Editor
  2. "Next Generation Multiple Access", IEEE Press / Wiley, 2024, Editor
  3. "Fundamentals of 6G Communications and Networking", Springer, 2023, Co-author

Patents：

  1. "A Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Multi-Robot Trajectory Planning Method", ZL202310365852.X, 2024, 1st Inventor
  2. "A Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Resource Allocation Method for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Networks", ZL202310706782.X, 2024, 1st Inventor
  3. "An Instant Localization and Radio Map Construction Method for Communication Robots", ZL202210706816.0, 2022, 1st Inventor
  4. "A Coverage and Capacity Optimization Method for Simultaneous Transmitting and Reflecting Surface Networks", ZL202310587936.8, 2023, 1st Inventor
  5. "A Flight Control and Computation Offloading Method and System for Multi-UAV Mobile Edge Computing", ZL202211119514.X, 2025, 3rd Inventor
  6. "A Task Offloading, Resource Allocation, and Trajectory Planning Method and System for Multi-UAV Cooperative Computing", ZL202310178099.3, 2025, 3rd Inventor
  7. "A Multi-Agent Optimization-Based Trajectory Planning and Resource Allocation Method and System for Multi-UAVs", ZL202510151627.5, 2025, 5th Inventor
  8. "A Site Deployment, Cache Placement, and Resource Allocation Method and Device", ZL202011110983.6, 2022, 3rd Inventor

Research Awards：

  1. 2024: Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications Letter, IEEE Communications Society, Co-author of the award-winning letter
  2. 2024: Early Career Researcher Award, Queen Mary Research and Innovation, Awardee
  3. 2023: Excellent Editor Award, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), Editor (service award)
  4. 2022–2023: Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate, Selected researcher
  5. 2023: Best Emerging Technologies Paper Award, IEEE ISAP, Co-author of the award-winning paper
  6. 2023: Best Paper Award, IEEE ICCT, Co-author of the award-winning paper
  7. 2023: Young Scientist Award, Ucom, Awardee
  8. 2022: Best Paper Award, IEEE ISWCS, Co-author of the award-winning paper
  9. 2022: Best Student Paper Award, IEEE VTC2022-Fall, Co-author of the award-winning paper
  10. 2022: Young Scientist Award, International Union of Radio Science (URSI), Awardee
  11. 2022: AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars (Internet of Things area), AI 2000, Selected scholar
  12. 2020: IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Young Researcher Award (EMEA Region), IEEE Communications Society, Awardee
  13. 2020–2022: World's Top 2% Scientists, Stanford University, Listed scientist