Qilian Liang received his PhD degree from University of Southern California in Electrical Engineering in 2000. He is a Distinguished University Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Prior to joining the faculty of UTA in 2002, he was a Member of Technical Staff in Hughes Network Systems Inc at San Diego, California.
His research interests include wireless sensor networks, wireless communications, signal processing, computational intelligence. Dr. Liang has published more than 330 journal and conference papers. He received 2002 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award, 2003 U.S. Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2007, 2009, 2010 U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program Award, 2012 UTA College of Engineering Excellence in Research Award, 2013 UTA Outstanding Research Achievement Award, and was inducted into UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholars in 2015. Dr. Liang is a Fellow of the IEEE.