Hong Liu

About

Hong Liu is a Professor of Physics at MIT, affiliated with the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics – a Leinweber Institute. His research interests focus on issues in quantum gravity, such as the quantum nature of black holes and the Big Bang singularity, using the framework of string theory. Over the past decade, his work has expanded to include understanding the dynamics of exotic quantum matter, including the quark-gluon plasma and strongly correlated electron systems. His current research lies at the interface of these subjects, enabled by the discovery of holographic duality, which establishes a mathematical equivalence between certain quantum matter systems and quantum gravities in one higher dimension. His goal is to develop a multi-pronged approach that integrates insights from string theory, nuclear physics, and condensed matter physics to address questions that traditional methods within each discipline have proved inadequate to solve.

Research topics

• Materials science
• Nanotechnology
• Chemical engineering
• Chemistry
• Computer science

Selected publications

• Transformer for Single Image Super-Resolution

  2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) · 2022-06-01 · 609 citations

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  Single image super-resolution (SISR) has witnessed great strides with the development of deep learning. However, most existing studies focus on building more complex networks with a massive number of layers. Recently, more and more researchers start to explore the application of Transformer in computer vision tasks. However, the heavy computational cost and high GPU memory occupation of the vision Transformer cannot be ignored. In this paper, we propose a novel Efficient Super-Resolution Transfo…

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• Water Splitting: From Electrode to Green Energy System

  Nano-Micro Letters · 2020-06-17 · 586 citations

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  Abstract Hydrogen (H 2 ) production is a latent feasibility of renewable clean energy. The industrial H 2 production is obtained from reforming of natural gas, which consumes a large amount of nonrenewable energy and simultaneously produces greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Electrochemical water splitting is a promising approach for the H 2 production, which is sustainable and pollution-free. Therefore, developing efficient and economic technologies for electrochemical water splitting has been an i…

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• Development of Conductive Hydrogels for Fabricating Flexible Strain Sensors

  Small · 2021-10-17 · 491 citations

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  Conductive hydrogels can be prepared by incorporating various conductive materials into polymeric network hydrogels. In recent years, conductive hydrogels have been developed and applied in the field of strain sensors owing to their unique properties, such as electrical conductivity, mechanical properties, self-healing, and anti-freezing properties. These remarkable properties allow conductive hydrogel-based strain sensors to show excellent performance for identifying external stimuli and detect…

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• Research on authenticity requirement identification method based on HDEF architecture

  2025-11-21

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  In the field of digital product development and management, requirement assessment is very important. The implementation of pseudo requirements will cause resource mismatch, low development efficiency, and even strategic errors. With the diversification of demand sources, the traditional authenticity demand identification relies on artificial experience, and there are problems such as single dimension, subjective dependence and insufficient interpretability. In order to solve these problems, thi…

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Recent grants

• Clinical Translation of High Energy Phase-Sensitive X-ray Breast Tomosynthesis

  NIH · $3.0M · 2015–2021

• AIR Option 1: Technology Translation Sustainable Wastewater Treatment System for Food and Beverage Industry

  NSF · $198k · 2013–2017

• NIH Grant R01CA115320

  NIH · $1.6M · 2013

Frequent coauthors

• Wei Chen

  Jiangnan University

  5347 shared

• Fei Wang

  Zhejiang University

  3578 shared

• Yuanhua Sang

  State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials

  851 shared

• Han Xia

  Wuhan Institute of Virology

  545 shared

• Weijia Zhou

  University of Jinan

  519 shared

• Jing Wang

  389 shared

• Jichuan Qiu

  Shandong University

  362 shared

• Xin Yu

  University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  338 shared

Education

• Ph.D., State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Materiaqls Science

  Shandong University

  2001

Awards & honors

• Alfred Sloan Fellow (2003)
• Outstanding Junior Investigator, US Department of Energy (20…
• Simons Fellow (2012)
• Guggenheim Fellow (2019)
• American Physical Society Fellow (2021)

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