2019年，香港科技大学，博士
2014年，清华大学，硕士
2010年，北京航空航天大学，学士

2021年9月至今，南方科技大学，助理教授
2019年9月至2021年8月，美国eTopus科技公司，高级工程师
2019年3月至2019年8月，香港科技大学，博士后研究员

5G/6G通信芯片
高速SerDes芯片
高性能锁相环/频率综合器
射频/毫米波/太赫兹信号源

IEEE VLSI会议亮点文章，2019
IEEE CICC Section主题报告，2019

1. X. Liu, Y. Chao and H. C. Luong, “A 59-to-276-GHz CMOS Signal Generator Using Varactor-Less VCO and Dual-Mode ILFD,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 2324–2334, Aug. 2021.
2. X. Liu and H. C. Luong, “A Fully Integrated 0.27-THz Injection-Locked Frequency Synthesizer with Frequency-Tracking Loop in 65-nm CMOS,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 1051–1063, April 2020.
3. X. Liu and H. C. Luong, “A 170-GHz 23.7%-Tuning-Range CMOS Injection-Locked LO Generator with Third-Harmonic Enhancement,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT), vol. 68, no. 7, pp. 2668–2678, July 2020.
4. X. Liu and H. C. Luong, “Injection-Locking Techniques for CMOS Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Signal Generation”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II), vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 3037-3043, July 2022. (Invited paper)
5. X. Liu and H. C. Luong, “Analysis and Design of Magnetically Tuned W-Band Oscillators,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (TVLSI), vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 732–743, June 2022.
6. X. Liu and H. C. Luong, “A 157.8-166.3GHz Fundamental Oscillator Achieving -181.9dBc/Hz FoM in 65nm CMOS,” IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology (TTST), vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 93-97, Jan. 2023.
7. S. Tian, X. Liu, “A 18.5-to-22.4GHz Class-F23 VCO Achieving 189.1dBc/Hz FoM Without 2nd/3rd-Harmonic Tuning in 65nm CMOS,” IEEE European Conference on Solid-State Circuits (ESSCIRC), Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 1–4, Sep. 2023.
8. D. Xu, et al. , “A Scalable Adaptive ADC/DSP-Based 1.25-to-56Gbps/112Gbps High-Speed Transceiver Architecture Using Decision-Directed MMSE CDR in 16nm and 7nm,” IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, USA, pp. 134–136, Feb. 2021.
9. X. Liu and H. C. Luong, “A Fully-Integrated 270-GHz Frequency Synthesizer in 65nm CMOS,” IEEE VLSI Circuit Symposium (VLSI), Kyoto, Japan, pp. C40–C41, June 2019. (Technical highlights)
10. X. Liu, Z. Huang, J. Yin and H. C. Luong, “Magnetic-Tuning Millimeter-Wave CMOS Oscillators,” IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Austin, TX, USA, pp. 1–8, April 2019. (Invited paper)
11. X. Liu and H. C. Luong, “A 0.3-V 2.5-mW 154-to-195GHz CMOS Injection-Locked LO Generation with -186.5dB FoM,” IEEE Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC), Philadelphia, PA, USA, pp. 196–199, June 2018.
12. X. Liu, Y. Chao and H. C. Luong, “A 59-to-276 GHz CMOS Signal Generation for Rotational Spectroscopy,” IEEE Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC), Honolulu, HI, USA, pp. 92–96, June 2017.