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Liu receives NSF CAREER Award, fourth in the department this year

Dr. Tie Liu, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, recently received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). He is the fourth faculty member to receive the award this year.
The NSF established the CAREER program to support junior faculty within the context of their overall career development, combining in a single program the support of research and education of the highest quality and in the broadest sense. Through this program, the NSF emphasizes the importance on the early development of academic careers dedicated to stimulating the discovery process in which the excitement of research is enhanced by inspired teaching and enthusiastic learning.
Liu received his CAREER award for his proposal titled "Information Theory and Coding for Wireless Broadcast Networks.”
Liu, who joined the department in 2006, received his B.S. and M.S. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from the Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1998 and 2000 respectively. He received his M.S. degree in Mathematics in 2004 and his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2006, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Liu’s research interests are in the field of information theory, wireless communication and signal processing. He is a recipient of the M. E. Van Valkenburg Graduate Research Award (2006) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Best Paper Award (2008) from the Third International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications.