Ya-Feng Liu - Biography

Working Experience

• Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2018.4-present

• Assistant Professor, State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2012.7-2018.4

Education

• Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2007.8-2012.7

  • Dissertation: Optimal Resource Allocation for Wireless Communications: Complexity Analysis and Algorithm Design

  • Advisor: Professor Yu-Hong Dai

• Visiting Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2011.2-2012.2

  • Advisor: Professor Zhi-Quan Luo

• B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, XiDian University, 2003.8-2007.7

Academic Visits

• Professor Zhi-Quan Luo, Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, 2019.09-2019.10

• Professor Wei Yu, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Toronto, 2018.04-2018.06

• Professor Zhi-Quan Luo, Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, 2017.07-2017.12

• Professor Wei Yu, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Toronto, 2017.03-2017.05

• Professor Zhi-Quan Luo, School of Science & Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 2015.12-2016.5

• Professor Xiaojun Chen, Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2015.10-2015.11

• Professor Shiqian Ma, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015.3-2015.5

• Professor Shiqian Ma, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014.3-2014.4

• Professor Zhi-Quan Luo, School of Electrical Engineering, XiDian University, 2013.6-2013.7

• Professor Shiqian Ma, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013.3-2013.4

• Professor Thorsten Koch, Scientific Information Department, Zuse Institute of Berlin, 2012.8

• Professor Zhi-Quan Luo, School of Electrical Engineering, XiDian University, 2012.5-2012.7

Awards

• 2024 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award

  • Joint with Profs. Fan Liu, Ang Li, Christos Masouros, and Yonina C. Eldar for the paper Cramer-Rao Bound Optimization for Joint Radar-Communication Beamforming

• 2022 Science and Technology Award for Young Scholars from China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

• Best Student Paper Award of 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

  • Joint with my Master student Xilai Fan and Dr. Liang Liu

• 2020 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award from IEEE Communication Society

• 2018 Science and Technology Award for Young Scholars from Operations Research Society of China

• 2017 Chen Jingrun Star Award of Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science

• Best Student Paper Award of 2015 International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt)

  • Joint with Ph.D student Qian Ma, Dr. Lin Gao, and Professor Jianwei Huang

• 2013 Top 10 Scientific Research Achievement Award of Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science

  • Joint with Professor Yu-Hong Dai

• Best Paper Award of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

  • Joint with Professor Yu-Hong Dai and Professor Zhi-Quan Luo

• 2011 Beijing Operation Research Society Young Author Best Paper Award

Grants

• Principal Investigator: NSFC Grant 12371314, Study on Two Optimization Problems from 5G and Beyond Communication System Design and Optimization Methods, 2024.01–2027.12

• Principal Investigator: NSFC Grant 12022116, Optimization Methods and Applications, 2021.01-2023.12 (NSFC Program for Excellent Young Scholars)

• Participant: NSFC Grant 12021001, Optimization Methods, Theory, and Applications, 2021.01-2025.12

• Participant: NSFC Grant 11991021, The Artificial Intelligence of Mixed Integer Programming, 2020.01-2024.12

• Participant: Beijing NSF Grant L172020, 5G Theory and Key Technologies for Rail Traffic Systems under High Mobility and Complicated Scenarios, 2017.10-2019.12

• Principal Investigator: NSFC Grant 11671419, Optimal Resource Allocation for 5G Mobile Communications: A Sparse Optimization Perspective, 2017.01-2020.12

• Participant: NSFC Grant 11631013, Optimization Theory and Methods for Big Data Analysis, 2017.01-2021.12

• Participant: NSFC Grant 11571221, The Theory and Algorithm for Mixed Binary Nonconvex Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs and Its Application, 2016.01-2019.12

• Participant: NSFC Grant 11331012, Optimization Theories and Methods for Information Technology, 2014.01-2018.12

• Principal Investigator: NSFC Grant 11301516, On Several Optimization Problems Arising from Wireless Communications, 2014.01-2016.12