Profile

  • Yu Liu (IEEE Senior Member) received the B.S. degree and Ph. D degree from the Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor and the Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Hefei University of Technology (HFUT). His research interests include image processing, computer vision and machine learning. In particular, his current research is mainly focused on image fusion, image restoration, visual recognition, medical image segmentation, and signal/image/video-based biomedical applications. He has published over 100 scientific articles in prestigious journals (e.g., IEEE TPAMI/TIP/TNNLS/TMM/TCSVT/TGRS/TIM/TCI/TBME/JBHI/JSTSP/SPL, IJCV, MedIA, INFFUS, ISPRS P&RS, PR) and conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, ICME, ICIP). Among them, 28 journal articles have been identified as ESI Highly Cited Papers. His publications have totally received over 20000 citations (Google Scholar). He is serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and an Editorial Board Member for Information Fusion. He was a recipient of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Andi Chi Best Paper Award in 2020 and the IET Image Processing Premium (Best Paper) Award in 2017. He was identified as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2023, 2024, 2025). He was identified as an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025).

Education & Work Experience

  • 2022/12-Now: Professor
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Instrument Science and Opto-electronics Engineering,
    Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), Hefei, China
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  • 2019/01-2022/11: Associate Professor
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Instrument Science and Opto-electronics Engineering,
    Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), Hefei, China
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  • 2016/07-2018/12: Lecturer
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Instrument Science and Opto-electronics Engineering,
    Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), Hefei, China
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  • 2011/09-2016/06: Ph.D.
    Department of Automation, School of Information Science and Technology,
    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China
    Supervisor: Prof. Zengfu Wang
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  • 2007/09-2011/06: B.S.
    Department of Automation, School of Information Science and Technology,
    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China
    GPA: 3.97/4.3, Rank: 1/105.

Research Grants

  • 2026/01-2029/12, National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI (Grant No. 62576132)
  • 2024/01-2027/12, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Co-PI (Grant No. U23A20294)
  • 2022/01-2025/12, National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI (Grant No. 62176081)
  • 2019/12-2024/11, National Key R&D Program of China, Co-PI (Grant No. 2019YFA0706203)
  • 2018/01-2020/12, National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI (Grant No. 61701160)
  • 2018/07-2020/06, Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Anhui, PI (Grant No. 1808085QF186)
  • 2020/04-2022/12, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, PI
  • 2018/05-2019/12, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, PI
  • 2017/03-2018/12, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, PI
  • 2018/12-2019/11, SenseTime Research Fund, PI

Honors & Awards

Academic Activities

❈  Editorial Service


❈  Professional Affiliations

  • IEEE Senior Member
  • The CAAI Intelligent Fusion Technical Committee, Standing Committee Member
  • The CSIG Machine Vision Technical Committee, Committee Member
  • The CSIG Multimedia Technical Committee, Committee Member
  • The CSIG Youth Working Committee, Committee Member
  • The CSIG Publishing Working Committee, Committee Member
  • The CSIG Hefei Member Activity Center, Executive Committee Member
  • The Medical Image Computing and Systems (MICS), Committee Member
  • The Multi-source Information Fusion Technical Committee of the Anhui Artificial Intelligence Society, Chairman