Xin Liu received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 2002. She is currently an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Davis. Before joining UC Davis, she was a postdoctoral research associate in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at UIUC. Her research interests are in the area of wireless communication networks, with a current focus on cognitive radio networks and heterogeneous mesh networks. She is also interested in network information theory, network security, and wireless sensor networks.

She received the Best Paper of year award of the Computer Networks Journal in 2003 for her work on opportunistic scheduling. She received NSF CAREER award in 2005 for her research on Smart-Radio-Technology-Enabled Opportunistic Spectrum Utilization. She received the Outstanding Engineering Junior Faculty Award from the College of Engineering, University of California, Davis in 2005.