Background Information 

Qing Huo Liu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics from Xiamen University in 1983 and 1986, respectively, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1989. Prof. Liu has been a Chair Professor and the Dean of School of Electronic Science and Technology, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo since 2022. He was a tenured Professor at Duke University from 1999 to 2022.  He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of Optica (Optical Society of America), Fellow of Acoustical Society of America, and Fellow of Electromagnetics Academy. His research interests include Computational Electromagnetics, Computational Acoustics，Inverse Scattering, EDA, Nanophotonics, Computational Geophysics, and Biomedical Imaging. He has published about 700 journal papers and more than 600 conference papers. He received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in the United States in 1996. He founded and served as the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques (2015-2018), and was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society (2014-2016). He received the 2017 Technical Achievement Award and 2018 Computational Electromagnetics Award from the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society, the 2018 Harrington-Mittra Award in Computational Electromagnetics from IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of ECE Illinois University.

Research Field

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

Educational Background

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

1983-1986: M.Sc. in Physics, Physics Department, Xiamen University, China

1979-1983: B.Sc. in Physics, Physics Department, 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

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

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

Awards and Honors

1996: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), White House Office of Science and Technology. Citation: For innovative research to the field of geophysical sensing for environmental applications.

2018: Harrington-Mittra Award in Computational Electromagnetics, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. Citation: For pioneering contributions to spectral and multiscale methods in computational electromagnetics, and to inverse scattering and imaging of complex media.

2017: Technical Achievement Award, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society. Citation: For pioneering contributions to spectral and multiscale methods in computational electromagnetics, and to subsurface sensing and imaging of complex media.

2018: Computational Electromagnetics Award, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society. Citation: For pioneering contributions to the Pseudospectral Time Domain (PSTD) method in CEM and for the development of subsequent applications.

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

2005: Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

2016: Fellow of the Optical Society of America

2005: Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America 

2006: Fellow Electromagnetics Academy

Representative Works

Summary

Over 690 SCI journal papers.

Google Scholar:

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10 Selected Publications

• L. E. Tobon, Q. Ren, and Q. H. Liu, “A new efficient 3D Discontinuous Galerkin Time Domain (DGTD) method for large and multiscale electromagnetic simulations,” J. Computat. Phys., vol. 283, pp. 374-387, Feb. 2015.

• Y. Li, J. Hu, W. Huang, Z. Nie, and Q. H. Liu, “A Spectral Integral Method for Multilayered Bodies of Revolution,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 4146-4154, Aug. 2017.

• R. Hong, S. Li, J. Zhang, Y. Zhang, N. Liu, Z. Yu, and Q. H. Liu, “3-D MRI-based electrical properties tomography using the volume integral equation method,” IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 4802-4811, Dec. 2017.

• Q. Sun, R. Zhang, Q. Zhan, and Q. H. Liu, “3-D Implicit–Explicit Hybrid Finite Difference/Spectral Element/Finite Element Time Domain Method Without a Buffer Zone,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 67, no. 8, pp. 5469-5476, Aug. 2019.

• J. Liu, N. Liu, and Q. H. Liu, “Spectral Numerical Mode Matching Method for 3D Layered Multi-Region Structures,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 986-996, Feb. 2020.

• P. H. Jia, Q. H. Liu, Y. Chen, W. F. Huang, X. Li, Z. Nie, and J. Hu, “Hybrid FEM-DDM and BEM-BoR for the Analysis of Multiscale Composite Structures,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 4753-4763, 2020.

• K. Chen, J. Liu, M. Zhuang, Q. Sun, and Q. H. Liu, “New Mixed SETD and FETD Methods to Overcome the Low-Frequency Breakdown Problems by Tree-Cotree Splitting,” IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Techn., vol. 68, no. 8, pp. 3219-3228, 2020.

• L. Shi, M. Zhuang, Y. Zhou, N. Liu, Q. H. Liu, “Domain decomposition based on the spectral element method for frequency-domain computational elastodynamics,” Science China Earth Sciences., vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 388-403, 2021.

• S. J. Wang, J. Liu, M. W. Zhuang, K. Chen, Q. H. Liu, “Mixed Spectral-Element Methods for 3-D Maxwell’s Eigenvalue Problems With Bloch Periodic and Open Resonators,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques., vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 1547-1558, 2021.

• Z. Guan, J. Liu, M. Zhuang, Q. H. Liu, “A Hybrid SESI Method for Electromagnetic Scattering by Objects in Multiregion Cylindrically Layered Media,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques., vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 3967-3975, 2021.