Prof. Yuanwei Liu

Principal Investigator of STAR LAB@QMUL

Visiting Professor, IEEE Fellow, Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, U.K.

E: yuanwei.liu@qmul.ac.uk



Yuanwei Liu has been a (tenured) full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU)  and a visiting professor in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)  since September 1st, 2024. Prior to that, he was a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) (Aug. 2021- Aug. 2024) and a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) (Sept. 2017- July 2021) at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), London, U.K, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Sep. 2016- Aug. 2017) at King's College London (KCL), London, U.K. He received the Ph.D. degree from QMUL in 2016. He currently 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 serval IEEE top journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of AAIA, a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, an IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Lecturer, and an IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Liu is the recipient of the 2020 [IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle East and Africa Region], the [2020 Early Achievement Award of the IEEE ComSoc - Signal Processing and Computing for Communications (SPCC) Technical Committee], and the recipient of the [2021 IEEE CTTC Early Achievement Awards]. More information can be found in Google Scholar and Linkedin.


  • [STAR-RIS Works] Some of our interesting recent Simultaneous Transmission And Reflection (STAR) works are below [Presentation slides] [WCM-Protocol Design] [TWC--Beamforming Design] [CL--Modelling and Performance Analysis] [CL--Coverage Characterization] [Hardware Modelling and Implementation of STAR]
  • Applicants are encouraged to contact me before submitting their applications.