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-{{:lingjia_liu.jpg?180 |Profile}}+{{:lingjia-liu2022.jpg?240 |Profile}}
 Lingjia Liu, Ph.D.\\ Lingjia Liu, Ph.D.\\
-Professor[[https://​ece.vt.edu/​|Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering]]\\ +Professor ​& [[https://​ece.vt.edu/​people/​faculty/​fellows.html|Bradley Senior Faculty Fellow]]\\  
-Associate ​Director, [[https://​wireless.vt.edu/​|Wireless@Virginia Tech]]\\+[[https://​ece.vt.edu/​|Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering]]\\ 
 +Director, [[https://​wireless.vt.edu/​|Wireless@Virginia Tech]]\\
 [[https://​vt.edu/​|Virginia Tech]], Blacksburg, VA, USA\\ [[https://​vt.edu/​|Virginia Tech]], Blacksburg, VA, USA\\
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 Elected Member, [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​about-us-2/​leadership/​|Executive Committee]]\\ Elected Member, [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​about-us-2/​leadership/​|Executive Committee]]\\
 [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​|National Spectrum Consortium]]\\ [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​|National Spectrum Consortium]]\\
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 ===== Research Interests: ===== ===== Research Interests: =====
  
-  * Machine learning for Wireless ​ +  * Machine learning for Engineering ​ 
-    * Real-time online learning-based wireless system design and hardware prototyping +    * Real-time ​online ​machine ​learning ​with limited training 
-    * Incorporating ​communication structure ​knowledge in learning strategy design +    * Energy-efficient spiking neural network for Internet of Things (IoTs) 
-    * Accelerating ​deep reinforcement learning ​for spectrum access and user/​resource scheduling +    * Incorporating ​domain ​knowledge in learning strategy design 
-  * Signal Process., Commun. & Netw. for 5G & Beyond +    * Generative AI for accelerating ​deep reinforcement learning 
-    * 3D mmWave ​massive FD-MIMO+  * Signal Process., Commun. & Netw. for FutureG 
 +    * 3D massive FD-MIMO ​user scheduling and resource allocation ​
     * Waveform design for 6G (e.g., MIMO-OTFS)     * Waveform design for 6G (e.g., MIMO-OTFS)
     * Computing and communication co-design for non-terrestrial networks (NTN)     * Computing and communication co-design for non-terrestrial networks (NTN)
-    * Network slicing using open radio access network (ORAN) ​platform for prototyping and system design+    * Open radio access network (ORAN) prototyping and optimization
   * Security and Privacy   * Security and Privacy
-    * Anomaly ​detection ​for smart grids+    * Radio frequency (RF) anomaly ​detection ​
     * Adversarial learning for spectrum sharing     * Adversarial learning for spectrum sharing
     * Differential privacy and federated learning for massive IoT networks     * Differential privacy and federated learning for massive IoT networks
-    * Anomaly and jamming detection for 5G networks+    * Anomaly and jamming detection for 5G/6G networks
  
-===== Short Bio: =====+===== Biography: =====
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-Lingjia Liu received the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree with the highest honor in Electronic Engineering Department from [[http://​www.sjtu.edu.cn|Shanghai Jiao Tong University]],​ Shanghai, China, and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree at [[http://​www.tamu.edu|Texas A&M University]] in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He spent the summer of 2007 and spring of 2008 in the [[http://​www.merl.com|Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory]]. Prior to joining the [[https://​ece.vt.edu/​|ECE Department]] at Virginia Tech (VT), he was an Associate Professor in the [[http://​www.eecs.ku.edu/​|EECS Department]] at the University of Kansas (KU). He spent 3+ years working in the [[http://​www.sra.samsung.com/​research/​standards-and-5g-mobility|Standards & Mobility Innovation Lab]] of Samsung Research America (SRA) where he got **Global Samsung Best Paper Award** twice (in 2008 and 2010 respectively). He was a technical leader and a leading **3GPP RAN1** standard delegate from Samsung on downlink MIMO, Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) transmission/​reception,​ device-to-device (D2D) communications,​ and Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets). He was elected as the **New Faces of Engineering 2011** by the Diversity Council of the National Engineers Week Foundation and was recognized during the //__2011 National Asian American Engineers of the Year Awards__// Banquet in Seattle ([[http://​www.dallasnews.com/​news/​local-news/​20110223-asian-culture-and-community-event-to-mark-uprising-in-taiwan.ece?​ssimg=130712#​ssStory130713|News Release in Dallas Morning News]]). From 2013 to 2017, he has been continuously ​selected as U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific ​Research (AFOSR)/Air Force Research ​Laboratory ​(AFRL) summer faculty fellow.\\ ​+Lingjia Liu received the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree with the highest honor in Electronic Engineering Department from [[http://​www.sjtu.edu.cn|Shanghai Jiao Tong University]],​ Shanghai, China, and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree at [[http://​www.tamu.edu|Texas A&M University]] in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He spent the summer of 2007 and spring of 2008 in the [[http://​www.merl.com|Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory]]. Prior to joining the [[https://​ece.vt.edu/​|ECE Department]] at Virginia Tech (VT), he was an Associate Professor in the [[http://​www.eecs.ku.edu/​|EECS Department]] at the University of Kansas (KU). He spent 3+ years working in the [[http://​www.sra.samsung.com/​research/​standards-and-5g-mobility|Standards & Mobility Innovation Lab]] of Samsung Research America (SRA) where he received ​**Global Samsung Best Paper Award** twice (in 2008 and 2010 respectively). He was a technical leader and a leading **3GPP RAN1** standard delegate from Samsung on downlink MIMO, Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) transmission/​reception,​ device-to-device (D2D) communications,​ and Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets). He was elected as the [[http://​www.dallasnews.com/​news/​local-news/​20110223-asian-culture-and-community-event-to-mark-uprising-in-taiwan.ece?​ssimg=130712#​ssStory130713|New Faces of Engineering 2011]] by the Diversity Council of the National Engineers Week Foundation for his contributions to the 3GPP LTE-Advanced standard. From 2013 to 2017, he has been selected as U.S. Air Force Research ​Laboratory ​(AFRL)/Air Force Office of Scientific ​Research (AFOSR) summer faculty fellow. In 2015, he received the Miller Professional Development Award for Distinguished Research at KU. In 2021, he received College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research at VT.\\ 
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-Lingjia Liu is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society and a senior member of //IEEE//. He is currently serving as an **Associate ​Editor** of the **//​IEEE ​Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems//** as well as the //EURASIP Journal on Wireless ​Communications and Networking//. He was an Editor of //​IEEE ​Transactions on Wireless Communications// (TWireless) from 2012 to 2017, an Editor of the //​IEEE ​Transactions on Communications// (TCom) from 2015 to 2017. He has been serving as the Technical Program Committee Chair of 7 consecutive //IEEE// GLOBECOM Workshops on Emerging Technologies for 5G ('​12-'​18). He served as the Vice-Chair, Americas of the //IEEE// Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing (TCGCC) from 2017 to 2019. Currently, he is an Elected Member of [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​about-us-2/​leadership/​|Executive Committee]] of [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​|National Spectrum Consortium]] ​and an Elected Member of the //IEEE// Signal Processing Society SPCOM Technical Committee.\\ +Lingjia Liu was an Editor of //​IEEE ​Trans. ​Wireless ​Commun.// (TWireless) from 2012 to 2017, an Editor of the //​IEEE ​Trans. Commun.// (TCom) from 2015 to 2017, and an Associate ​Editor of the //​IEEE ​Trans. ​ Neural Netw. and Learning Syst.// (TNNLS) from 2017 to 2022. He has been serving as the Technical Program Committee Chair of 7 consecutive //IEEE// GLOBECOM Workshops on Emerging Technologies for 5G ('​12-'​18). He served as the Vice-Chair, Americas of the //IEEE// Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing (TCGCC) from 2017 to 2019 and was an Elected Member of the //IEEE// Signal Processing Society SPCOM Technical CommitteeHe is currently serving as an Elected Member of the [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​about-us-2/​leadership/​|Executive Committee]] of [[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​|National Spectrum Consortium]].\\ ​
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-Lingjia Liu has 200+ publications including 3 book chapters, ​90+ journal publications, ​editorials, and 100+ conference papers. He has numerous technical contributions to major 4G standards including both 3GPP LTE/​LTE-Advanced and //IEEE 802.16m//. He has 20+ granted U.S. patents with 20+ pending applications,​ and **10+ essential intellectual property rights (IPRs)** in major 4G standards. His research receives including **8 Best Paper Awards** ​(2020 Charles K. Kao Best Paper Award, 2018 //IEEE// TAOS Best Paper Award, 2016 //IEEE// GLOBECOM Best Paper Award, etc). Currently, his research is sponsored by [[http://​www.wpafb.af.mil/​afrl/​ri/​|Air Force Research Laboratory]][[http://​www.wpafb.af.mil/​afrl/​afosr/​|Air Force Office of Scientific Research]][[https://​www.intel.com/​content/​www/​us/​en/​research/​overview.html|Intel]][[http://​nsf.gov|National Science Foundation]][[https://​www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/​|National Spectrum Consortium]][[https://​www.qualcomm.com/​|Qualcomm]], and [[http://​www.sra.samsung.com/​research/​standards-and-5g-mobility|Samsung Research America]]. His research efforts have been supported in part by over **$125 M** in research funding, with Lingjia Liu serving as the **principal investigator (PI)** on more than **$14 M** federal ​research ​grants ​(personal share **$8M**).+Lingjia Liu has 200+ publications including 3 book chapters, ​100+ journal publications, ​editorials, and 100+ conference papers. He has numerous technical contributions to major 4G standards including both 3GPP LTE/​LTE-Advanced and //IEEE 802.16m//. He has 20+ granted U.S. patents with 20+ pending applications,​ and **10+ essential intellectual property rights (IPRs)** in major 4G standards. His research receives including **8 Best Paper Awards**. Currently, his research is sponsored by various agencies AFRL/AFOSRAFRL/RIDARPAIARPANSFOUSD(R&​E), and the industry. His research efforts have been supported in part by **$132+ Million** in **non-equipment/​non-infrastructure** ​research funding, with Lingjia Liu serving as the **principal investigator (PI)** on **$27+ Million** non-equipment/​infrastructure ​research ​projects ​(personal share **$13Million**).
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-**Available positions**:​ research assistant positions are available for self-motivated Ph.D. students who are interested in conducting research on the topic of signal processing, machine learning and networking for **<fc #​ff0000>​Spring/​Fall ​2022</​fc>​** (**[[Openings|click for details]]**).\\+**Available positions**:​ research assistant positions are available for self-motivated Ph.D. students who are interested in conducting research on the topic of signal processing, machine learning and networking for **<fc #​ff0000>​Spring/​Fall ​2024</​fc>​** (**[[Openings|click for details]]**).\\
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-**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** ​__December 302021__Our paper, ​//Reservoir Computing Meets Extreme Learning Machine in Real-Time MIMO-OFDM Receive Processing//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Commun.// (**TCOM**) Congratulations Lianjun and Zhou!\\+**<fc #​6495ed>​[News Release]</​fc>​** ​__March 252024__: Virginia Tech Daily News features our research on [[https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/03/eng-ece-lingjia-liu-nishith-tripathi-ORAN-Innovation-Fund.html|O-RAN]] as the <fc #​ff0000>​TOP Story</fc>!\\
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-**<fc #ff0000>[Ph.D. Defense]</​fc>​** ​__December 82021__Our group member, Bodong Shang, successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation and becomes ​Dr. Shang. Congratulations Dr. Shang! The title of Bodong'​s dissertation ​is "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Edge Computing in Wireless Networks". He is the <fc #​ff0000>​**12th**<​/fc> Ph.Dgraduated from our group. He will be working as a joint PostDoctoral Research Associate from Princeton Univresity and Virginia Tech.\\+**<fc #6495ed>[Invited Talk]</​fc>​** ​__March 72024__: Dr. Lingjia Liu is invited to give a talk on "Enhancing Future-G Connectivity & Resiliency Through Mobile Distributed MIMO (dMIMO)" ​to the [[https://futureg.dsigroup.org/​|FutureG for Defense Summit]] organized by Defense Strategies Institute.\\
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-**<fc #6495ed>[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** ​__December 32021__Our paper, ​//Real-time Machine Learning for Symbol Detection ​in MIMO-OFDM Systems//, has been accepted to //IEEE// **INFOCOM 2022**Congratulations Donald and Lianjun!\\+**<fc #ff0000>[Conference]</​fc>​** ​__March 12024__Dr. Lingjia Liu will serving as the General Chair of **100th** ​//IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference//​ (VTC) together Dr. [[https://​www.linkedin.com/​in/john-smee-b9b1891/|John Smee]] from Qualcomm and Dr. [[https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography/​Article/​3309927/​principal-director-for-futureg/​|Tom Rondeau]] from OUSD(R&​E)The conference website can be found [[https://​events.vtsociety.org/​vtc2024-fall/​|here]]. Please consider submitting your work to this special edition of the conference!\\
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-**<fc #​6495ed>​[Faculty Position]</​fc>​** __December ​12021__: Our group memberDrYanjun Panwill be joining ​the Computer Science ​and Computer Engineering ​(CSCEDeptat the University ​of Arkansas ​as a tenure-track assistant professor ​in Spring 2022Congratulations Yanjun!\\+**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __February 13, 2024__: "​Machine Learning Meets OFDM in Waveform Adaptation"​ has been awarded by the **Air Force Research Laboratory** (AFRL). The total budget of **$525,​063.00**. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **PI** of the project.\\ 
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __December ​132023__: Our paper//​Revolutionizing Future Connectivity:​ A Contemporary Survey on AI-empowered Satellite-based Non-Terrestrial Networks in 6G//, has been accepted to //IEEE CommunSurv. Tutor.// (**COMST**) ​ Congratulations Shadab!\\ 
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Paper Acceptance]</​fc>​** __November 252023__: Our paper, //Bayesian Inference-assisted Machine Learning for Near Real-Time Jamming Detection and Classification in 5G New Radio (NR)//, has been accepted to //IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.// (**TWireless**) ​ Congratulations Shashank!\\ 
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 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __November 23, 2023__: "​Learning-Based ORAN Testing"​ has been awarded by the **National Telecommunications ​and Information Administration** ​(NTIA)'s Wireless Innovation FundThe total budget of **$2,​159,​268.00**. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **Leading PI** of the project with collaborators from Wireless@VT and EECS@MIT. The official news release from NTIA can be found [[https://​www.ntia.gov/​press-release/​2023/​biden-harris-administration-awards-13m-wireless-innovation-fund|here]]. My quote as well as the quotes from members from the Congress can be found [[https://​www.ntia.gov/​page/​what-they-re-saying-biden-harris-administration-awards-second-grants-wireless-innovation-fund|here]].\\ 
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Invited Talk]</​fc>​** __October 24, 2023__: Dr. Lingjia Liu is invited to give talk on "​Harnessing Echo State Networks in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Spectrum Sharing"​ to the 2023 //​Mini-Symposium on Data Driven Optimization of Spectrum Sharing Networks// organized by Prof. [[https://​people.duke.edu/​~vt45/​|Vahid Tarokh]] at Duke University.\\ 
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 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Award]</​fc>​** __October 16, 2023__: Dr. Lingjia Liu has been selected to receive the //​[[https://​news.vt.edu/​articles/​2023/​10/​research-researchexcellencecelebration.html|Research Excellence Award]]// from the Office of Research and Innovation at Virginia Tech.\\ 
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 +**<fc #​6495ed>​[Interview]</​fc>​** __October 3, 2023__: Dr. Lingjia Liu has been interviewed by **Scientific American** on 6G networks. See [[https://​www.scientificamerican.com/​article/​new-6g-networks-are-in-the-works-can-they-destroy-dead-zones-for-good/​| the article]] for more details.\\ 
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 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Grant]</​fc>​** __September 19, 2023__: "​Mobile Distributed MIMO: Learning Meets Spreading in Networking"​ has been awarded by the **Office of Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering** (OUSD(R&​E)). The total budget of **$9.2 Million**. Dr. Lingjia Liu is serving as the **Leading PI** of the project with collaborators from Wireless@VT,​ National Security Institute of Virginia Tech, and Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Lab. Virginia Tech Daily News features [[https://​news.vt.edu/​articles/​2023/​10/​eng-futuregaward.html|dMIMO Project]] as the <fc #​ff0000>​Top Story</​fc>​!\\ 
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 +**<fc #​ff0000>​[Endowment]</​fc>​** __June 7, 2023__: Dr. Lingjia Liu has been named the **Bradley Senior Faculty Fellow** by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. The endowed faculty fellowship is set up to recognize faculty research excellence. See [[https://​news.vt.edu/​articles/​2023/​06/​eng-ece-Lingjia-Liu-named-Bradley-Senior-Faculty-Fellow.html|news on VTX]] for more details.\\
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 More news can be found [[News|HERE]]. More news can be found [[News|HERE]].
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