Zheng Liu

Zheng Liu received his B.S. degree in electronics from Peking University in Beijing, China, and his M.S. degree from UCLA in 2013 and 2015, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Princeton University in 2023. From 2015 to 2018, he worked as a senior design engineer at Skyworks Solutions Inc, Newbury Park, CA, where he focused on 4G/5G RF front-end modules. In the summer of 2022, he joined Apple Inc., San Diego as a mmWave IC design intern. He currently holds the position of Analog/RF Research Engineer at Kilby Labs, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, USA. His research interests include mmWave/sub-THz power amplifiers in silicon and III-V technologies, high-efficiency transmitter architectures, and wideband phased array systems.

Zheng has been an active reviewer for various IEEE journals and transactions since 2018 and currently serves as an MTT-S student ambassador. He received the Bede Liu Best Ph.D. Dissertation award from Princeton University in 2023, the Advanced Practice Paper Award at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in 2022, the MTT-S Graduate Fellowship Award in 2021, the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2021, the Yan Huo ’94 Fellowship from Princeton University in 2020, and has been a recipient of multiple IEEE IMS Best Student Paper Awards with 2nd place in 2020 and 3rd place in 2021.