Dr. Zhi-Wei Liu is currently a professor in the School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). He received the B.S. degree in information management and system from Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, in 2004 (from Sep. 2000 to Jun. 2004), and the Ph.D. degree in control theory and applications from HUST, Wuhan, China, in 2011 (from Sep. 2006 to Jun. 2011).

From Aug. 2004 to Aug. 2006, he was a teacher in the Department of Information Engineering, Nanchang Institute of Technology. From Jul. 2011 to Sep. 2013, he was a postdoc in the Department of Automation, Wuhan University (WHU), Wuhan, China working with Prof. Hong Zhou. From Sep. 2013 to Sep. 2015, he was a lecturer in the Department of Automation, WHU. He was promoted to Associate Professor in Sep.2015. He was moved to HUST in Feb. 2017, and promoted to professor in Oct. 2020.

From Dec. 2012 to Feb. 2013, He held the position of Senior Research Associate with the Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. From Sep. 2014 till Sep. 2015, he held the position of Visit Research Fellow with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University.  Dr. Liu is a recipient of the Excellent PhD Dissertation of Hubei Province in 2004, China.