RESUME

PAN LIU

EDUCATION

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Doctor of Philosophy, Center for Communications and Signal Processing Research (CCSPR) 09/2003-present

GPA: 4.0 Credit: 69 (till now)

Tsinghua University, Department of Electronic Engineering

Master of Science 06/2002

Bachelor of Engineering 06/1999

HONORS & SCHOLARSHIPS

• PHONETEL Fellowship 2006

• University Research Award 2005

• The Pioneer Project Planning of Tsinghua, one first prize, two second prizes 1999

• Tsinghua University Electronic Design Contest, won the semi-final 1999

• The Programming Contest of Department of Electronic Engineering, second prize 1998

• Tsinghua University Art Scholarship(about Peking Opera) 1997

• Tsinghua University Athlete Scholarship(about Chess) 1996

• Chess Competition of Colleges and Universities, Champion 1996

• Acquire the title of National Chess Top Class Athlete 1995

• The Beijing Mathematics Contest for High School Students, first prize 1994

• The Juvenile International Chess Competition, Champion 1992

RESEARCH AND WORKING EXPERIENCE

Center for Communications and Signal Processing Research, Research Assistant 09/2003-present

• Researched on Frequency Offset and Phase Noise mitigation in SC-FDE system 

• Researched on Synchronization and Channel Estimation in WLAN and DVB-T system

• Protocol analysis on WIMAX, IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.16e, IEEE 802.20

• Researched on Synchronization in Cooperative wireless network

• Researched on Peak to Average Ratio Reduction in MIMO-OFDM system

• Researched on Phase Noise Mitigation technique in MIMO-OFDM system (a patent is pending)

• Researched on Space Time Coding technique for MIMO system

• Researched on Hybrid ARQ scheme in fading channel with MIMO

• Protocol analysis on 3GPP (WCDMA) and 3GPP2 (CDMA2000)

• Developed, analyzed, and debugged algorithms for wideband CDMA wireless air interface

The Project of Ministry of Information Industry---Data Broadcasting System in HDTV, 07/2002-08/2003

• Leader of Tsinghua's team

• Jointly developed by Tsinghua's team and STMicroelectronics corporation.

Acquire a patent about wireless bleeper system ( [Announcement Number ]1226787) 2000

The Digital TV Lab , Research Assistant 09/1999-06/2002

• Help design HDTV/SDTV IRD system

• Researched on the specifications of DVB and ATSC

• Researched on the algorithm of DES of Conditional Access system

• Designed and tested HDTV Transport Stream Generator

• Researched on the specifications of DAVIC and DOCSIS

• Researched on the Interactive CATV and Internet Network technique , Designed IP gateway and Embedded Systems which process interactive information in STB

The Image Communication Lab , Research Assistant 09/1997-05/1999

• Designed and tested the encoder of MPEG-2 in a Real-Time Transport system

• Design of Optimized Videophone System Over PSTN

• Researched on communication theory and network

• Researched on algorithms and architectures of MPEG-2,JPEG,Wavelet Encoding

• Researched on algorithms of JPEG2000 and MPEG-7

PUBLICATIONS

• P. Liu, Jianming Zhu, and Y. Bar-Ness, "Impact of Phase Noise in MIMO-OFDM Systems," to be submitted to IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 2006.

• P. Liu, S. Wu and Y. Bar-Ness, "A Phase Noise Mitigation Scheme for MIMO WLANs with Spatially Correlated and Imperfectly Estimated Channels," accepted for publication in IEEE Commun. Lett., 2006.

• S. Wu, P. Liu and Y. Bar-Ness, "Phase Noise Mitigation for OFDM systems," accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Wireless Commun., 2006.

• P. Liu and Y. Bar-Ness, "A Comparison between OFDM and Single-Carrier Block Transmission with the Presence of Frequency Offset in AWGN Channels," to be submitted to VTC2006 Fall, 2006.

• P. Liu, Y. Bar-Ness and Jianming Zhu, "Effects of Phase Noise at Both Transmitter and Receiver on the Performance of OFDM Systems," submitted to the 40th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems(CISS), Princeton, NJ, Jan. 2006.

• P. Liu and Y. Bar-Ness, "BER Performance Analysis for OFDM Systems With Phase Noise," accepted for publication in ICC' 06.

• P. Liu and Y. Bar-Ness, "Phase Noise Mitigation for V-BLAST OFDM System," Microwave Antenna Propagation and EMC Technologies For Wireless Communications, Beijing, China, Aug. 2005.

• P. Liu, "Phase Noise Mitigation Method with MMSE based CPE Estimator in MIMO OFDM," awarded the "Certificate of Distinction" in Provost¡¯s student research day of NJIT, April 13, 2005.

• P. Liu and Y. Bar-Ness, "Phase Noise Mitigation Method with MMSE based CPE Estimator in MIMO OFDM," Wireless and Optical Communications Conference, Newark, Apr. 2005.

• P. Liu and Y. Xue, "Ip Gateway and Interactive CATV System," technique of TV(key journal in Chinese), 2002.

• P. Liu and Y. Xue, "Design of HDTV Transport Stream Generator," technique of TV(key journal in Chinese) 2001.

• P. Liu and F. Li, "New Interlace Algorithm in TS_MUX," JIG(key journal in Chinese), 2000.

INTERN&PART-TIME JOB

Part-time job in V-shine Co. Beijing , P.R.China 06/2000-09/2000

Help designed the DTV Transmission system

Intern in China Telcom 05/1999-09/1999

development about the front end of Accounting System based on Unix and Informix.

PERSONAL

• President of Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) of NJIT 2005-present

• Committee member of Tsinghua Alumni Association (THAA) 2005-present

• President of Peking Opera Association of Tsinghua University 1999-2000

• Captain of chess team of Tsinghua University 1997-1998