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Dr Zhixin Liu
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Roberts Engineering Building
UCL, Torrington Place
London
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WC1E 7JE
Appointment
- Lecturer in Optical Communications and Networks
- Dept of Electronic & Electrical Eng
- Faculty of Engineering Science
Role
UCL Principal Supervisor,UCL Subsidiary Supervisor
Biography
Zhixin Liu received the PhD degree in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2012. Since post-graduate he has been working closely with industry and academic partners including Corning Fibre Incorporated, SAE magnetic, Huawei, Oclaro, and Eblana photonics, just to name a few. In 2013 he joined the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton, UK and became a Senior Research Fellow in 2015. In 2016, he joined the Optical Networks Group at UCL as a Lecturer. He holds 7 patents and has published more than 50 papers in refereed journals and conferences.
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Research Summary
Dr. Zhixin Liu is a lecturer and a member of the Optical Networks Group at the Electronic & Electrical Engineering Department in UCL. His research aims at investigating optical components and subsystems for enabling larger data transmission capacities with a simultaneous reduction in power consumption and system complexity. His research interests include:
- Optical transmitters for data centre interconnections
- High-speed directly modulated lasers based subsystems
- Digital and analog signal processing for low latency and power-aware optical communications
- Photonic digital-to-analog (DA) and analog-to-digital (AD) conversions
Teaching Summary
- Teaching
Photonics II (Undergraduate ELEC3006, Master ELECM014)
Aims
To analyse key components of opto-electronic systems, to analyse complete opto-electronic systems and to prepare students for design work in opto-electronics and optical communications.
Learning Outcomes
Electromagnetic theory; Circuit Theory; Basic Coherent and non-coherent optics; Properties of materials; Noise in communications systems; Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits.
- Supervision
Undergraduate Final Year project and M.Sc project at the Dept. of EEE at UCL.
MRes and PhD supervisor at the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Integrated Photonic and Electronic Systems (IPES)
MRes and PhD supervisor at the Institute of Communications and Connected System
Academic Background
| 2018 | ATQ03 - Recognised by the HEA as a Fellow | University College London | |
| 2013 | Doctor of Philosophy | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
