Lingjia Liu

Lingjia Liu is a professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE), Boeing Distinguished Professor, and a member of the Virginia Tech Institute for Advanced Computing faculty. He also serves as the Co-Director of Wireless@Virginia Tech. He received the B.S. degree with the highest honor in the Electronic Engineering Department at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the PhD degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. 

Prior to joining the academia, he spent more than 3 years in Samsung Research America as a technical leader and a leading 3GPP RAN1 standard delegate on downlink MIMO, Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) transmission/reception, device-to-device (D2D) communications, and Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets). In Fall 24, he was working as a Visiting Professor/Scientist in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He works in the general area of wireless communication systems and networks, communication theory, signal processing and information theory with a focus on identifying efficient machine learning tools for future generation (FutureG) wireless networks.

Lingjia Liu is an IEEE Fellow for his work on multi-cell multi-user MIMO and intelligent spectrum access. He is also an Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) Fellow in recognition of his outstanding achievements in machine learning for wireless. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer with 200+ publications including 3 book chapters, 100+ journal publications, 6 editorials, and 100+ conference papers. He has 20+ granted U.S. patents many of which are regarded as essential intellectual property rights (IPRs) in major 4G standards. His research received many recognitions including 8 Best Paper Awards. He served as an Elected Member (representing academia) on the Executive Committee of the National Spectrum Consortium  from 2020 to 2025. See Dr. Liu's research profile published by Virginia Tech for more details.