Dr. Liu holds a Doctorate in Biomedical Engineering from the Shandong University, in Jinan, China. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher (2010-2013) and an Associate Professor (2014) at Shandong University in China, and as a Research Associate at Newcastle University in UK (2013-2014). He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Emory University in US. Dr. Liu has over 100 peer-reviewed journal/conference publications, and has authored and co-authored several book chapters and patents. Dr. Liu has lead several research projects. He is the Lead Guest Editor/Guest Editor, as well as a peer-reviewer, for several international journals. He is now a member of the Federation Journal Committee (FJC) of International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE).

Dr. Liu Research Interests are: ECG/pulse/heart sound signal processing; Heart rate variability; Blood pressure measurement; mHealth; Machine learning and big data processing for detecting cardiovascular disease.