Hailiang Liu received his B.S. degree in flight vehicle design and engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2009, and his Ph.D. degree in aircraft design from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2018. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, from 2018 to 2020. He is currently an assistant professor at the School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China. His main research interests include aircraft flight dynamics and control, ground effect aircraft design, and hypersonic aircraft design.