Dr. Xiang Liu is Chief Optical Standards Expert of Huawei. He has over 20 years of working experience in the optical communication industry. He received the Ph.D. degree in applied physics from Cornell University in 2000. He has authored over 350 publications and holds over 100 US patents. He is the author of the book entitled “Optical Communications in the 5G Era”. He has served as a General Co-Chair of OFC 2018 and a Deputy Editor of Optics Express. He is a Fellow of IEEE and OSA (now OPTICA).