Nan Liu received a B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, P.R. China in 2001, and a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD in 2007. From 2007 to 2008, she was a postdoctoral scholar in the Wireless Systems Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. In 2009, she became a professor at the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, School of Information Science and Engineering at Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Her research interests lie in the areas of information theory and communication theory. She is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications.