Xiang Liu received the Ph.D. degree in applied physics from Cornell University in 2000. He is currently Senior Director of Optical Access Network Research at Futurewei Technologies, Huawei R&D USA, focusing on next-generation optical access technologies. Prior to this, Dr. Liu had been a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, working on high-speed optical fiber transport technologies such as 100G/400G/1T coherent transmission. He has authored/coauthored more than 330 journal and conference papers, and holds over 80 US patents. Dr. Liu is a Fellow of the IEEE and the OSA. He is serving as a Deputy Editor of Optics Express, a Co-Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine’s optical communications series, and a General Co-Chair of OFC 2018.