Wei Liu received the B.Sc. degree in Space Physics (minor in Electronics) in 1996 and LLB in Intellectual Property Law in1997 from Peking University, China (passed the Lawyer Qualification Examination of China in 1997 and practised as a trainee lawyer and then received his full lawyer\\\\\\\\\\\'s licence in 1999), MPhil from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Hong Kong, in 2001, PhD in 2003 from the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, U.K. He then worked as a postdoc first in Southampton and later in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London. In September 2005, He joined the Communications Research Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield as a lecturer, and then promoted to senior lecturer in January 2015.

His research interests cover a wide range of topics in signal processing, with a focus on sensor (antenna, hydrophone, microphone, seismometer, etc.) array signal processing (beamforming and source separation/extraction, direction of arrival estimation, target tracking and localization, etc.), and its various applications, such as robotics and autonomous vehicles, remote sensing, human computer interface, data analysis, radar, sonar, and wireless communications