Background Information: 

Qing Huo Liu, a Fellow of the IEEE, the Optica, the Acoustical Society of America, and the Electromagnetics Academy, currently is a Chair Professor and Dean of the School of Electronic Science and Technology at the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China and a Visiting Chair Professor with Xiamen University. He was a Research Assistant with the Electromagnetics Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, from September 1986 to December 1988, and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate from January 1989 to February 1990. He was a Research Scientist and a Program Leader with Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, CT, USA, from 1990 to 1995. From 1996 to May 1999, he was an Associate Professor with New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA. From 1999 to 2022, he was a Tenured Full Professor from Duke University in the United States. 

Professor Liu’s research areas include computational multiphysics in electronic design automation (EDA), computational electromagnetics and acoustics, inverse problems and their applications in nanophotonics, geophysics, and biomedical imaging. He has published over 750 papers in referred journals and is among the most cited scholars internationally within his field. He has been recognized among the top 0.05% of scientists in all fields globally in both career and recent five-year rankings (ScholarGPS).

From 2015 to 2018, he served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and the Founding Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques. For his significant contributions to research, he was honored with the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1996 by the White House, the 1996 Early Career Research Award from the Environmental Protection Agency, the 1997 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, the 2017 Technical Achievement Award, the 2018 Computation Electromagnetics Award from the Society for Applied Computational Electromagnetics, the 2018 Harrington-Mittra Computation Electromagnetics Award by the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society, and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ECE Distinguished Alumni Award in 2018. He has also received several national and provincial recognitions in China.

Research Field:

EDA for Integrated Circuits, Computational Electromagnetics and Acoustics, Inverse Scattering, Nanophotonics, Computational Geophysics, Biomedical Imaging.

Educational Background:

1986-1988: Ph.D. (majoring in Electrical Engineering), Department ECE of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

1983-1986: M.Sc. (majoring in Physics), Physics Department of Xiamen University, China

1979-1983: B.Sc. (majoring in Physics), Physics Department of Xiamen University, China

Work Experience:

2022-present: Chair Professor, Dean of School of Electronic Science and Technology, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China

2004-2022: Tenured Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University, USA

2010-2020: National Distinguished Professor, Dean, Institute of Electromagnetics and Acoustics, Xiamen University

1999-2003: Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University, USA

1996-1999: Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University, USA

1990-1995: Research Scientist and Program Leader, Schlumberger-Doll Research, USA

1989-1990: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of ECE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Academic Experience: 

2021-present: Visiting Professor, Dean (Honorary), Institute of Electromagnetics and Acoustics, Xiamen University, China

2019-2020: Visiting Professor, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Academic Part-time Jobs (Partial):

2015-2018: Founding Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques

2007-present: Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Progress in Electromagnetics Research (PIER)

1999-present: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Awards and Honors:

1996: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), White House Office of Science and Technology. 

2018: Harrington-Mittra Award in Computational Electromagnetics, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. 

2017: Technical Achievement Award, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society. 

2018: Computational Electromagnetics Award, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society. 

2018: Distinguished Alumni Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2005: IEEE Fellow 

2016: Optical Society of America Fellow 

2005: Acoustical Society of America Fellow 

2006: Electromagnetics Academy Fellow 

Representative Works:

More than 750 SCI journal papers

Google Scholar：

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fz1Z-7oAAAAJ&hl=en 

ScholarGPS：

https://scholargps.com/scholars/98034100886434/qing-huo-liu  

Web of Knowledge：

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/3702412 

10 Representative Works (* refers to the corresponding author)

(1) L. Wang, Z. He, Q. Sun*, Q. H. Liu*, 2025, An enhanced spatial-domain probe compensation method with SRM for near-field scanning, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.

(2) Z. Sun, M. Zhuang, Q. H. Liu*, 2024, An efficient 3-D hybrid finite element spectral integral method for electromagnetic problems with interior and exterior spherical boundaries, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.   

(3) S. Wan, Q. H. Liu*, 2024, Finite element spectral integral (FESI) method for scattering from an arbitrary number of circular cylinders with inhomogeneous shells, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 73(2): 854-866.

(4) H.-J. Hu, J. Li, L.-Y. Xiao, Y. Cheng, Q. H. Liu*, 2024, A residual fully convolutional network (Res-FCN) for electromagnetic inversion of high contrast scatterers at an arbitrary frequency within a wide frequency band, Inverse Problems, 40(6): 065008.

(5) R. Zhang, X. C. Li, Q. H. Liu*, 2024, Tunable terahertz intrinsic chiroptical absorption empowered by accidental bound states in the continuum, Applied Physics Letters, 125(21). 

(6) J. Wang, J. Liu, M. Zhuang*; Q. H. Liu*, 2023, Spectral-Element spectral-integral method for EM scattering by doubly periodic objects in fully anisotropic layered media, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 71(10): 4218-4226.   

(7) S. J. Wang, J. Liu, K. Chen*, Q. H. Liu*, 2023, A spurious-free domain decomposition method for 3-D maxwell's eigenvalue problems, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 71(2): 548-560. 

(8) Q. Q. Liu, M. Zhuang*, W. Zhan, L. Shi, Q. H. Liu*, 2023, A hybrid implicit-explicit discontinuous Galerkin spectral element time domain (DG-SETD) method for computational elastodynamics, Geophysical Journal International, 234(3): 1855-1869.

(9) Y. Zhong, H. Wang, W.-F. Huang, Y. Mao, M. Yuan, L. Cui, Q. H. Liu*, 2023, Efficient domain decomposed simulations of induction well-logging tools in a deviated borehole, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 61: 1-10.

(10) Q. Q. Liu, M. Zhuang*, W. Zhan, N. Liu, Q. H. Liu*, 2022, An efficient thin layer equivalent technique of SETD method for thermo-mechanical multi-physics analysis of electronic devices, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 192: 122816.