Biography

Lei Liu (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Ji'an, Jiangxi, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in Communication and Information Systems from Xidian University in 2017. From 2014 to 2016, he was an exchange Ph.D. student with Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, supported by the State Scholarship Fund from the China Scholarship Council (CSC). From 2016 to 2017, he was a Research Assistant with the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore, where he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in 2017. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Hong Kong, where he was a Research Fellow in 2019. Since December 2019, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Nomi, Japan. He was the Publications Co-Chair of the 2021 IEEE Information Theory Workshop. He was an Exemplary Reviewer (fewer than 2%) of IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2020. He was a senior member of the China Institute of Communications (CIC). His current research interests include message passing, MIMO, multi-user systems, modern channel coding, and information theory.