Wei Liu - Biography

Dr. Wei Liu is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He received his Ph.D. degree in EEE from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2021. Subsequently, he joined his alma mater as a Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Assistant Professor, and Honorary Assistant Professor. He also served as a Visiting Researcher with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) in 2019. Starting in September 2023, Dr. Liu joined the Department of EEE, PolyU, and is also the Manager of Research Centre for Electric Vehicles at PolyU. His research interests include electric vehicle technologies, power electronics with artificial intelligence, wireless power transfer, biomedical power electronics, and power semiconductor devices. Since 2023, he has been recognized among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University according to single-year citation impact in EEE (Top 0.28% in EEE).

Dr. Liu has published approximately 110 international journal papers (including Nature Portfolio and IEEE Transactions journals) and one book chapter. He was the recipient of two Gold Medals with Congratulations of the Jury at the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, the Power Engineering Prize from HKU, the Second Place Prize Paper Award of IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE), as well as Excellent Paper Award and Best Presentation Award from international conferences in the area of Electric Vehicles and Transportation Electrification. He is a Guest Associate Editor of IEEE JESTPE, an Associate Editor of international journals, and a Session Chair of international conferences.