Prof. Ke Liu

Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Dean of Clean Energy Institute & Dean of School of Innovation
and Entrepreneurship

Foreign Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology & Engineering
Fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
Editorial Board of International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

2003 M.B.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

1995 Ph.D., City University of New York, Chemical Engineering

1994 M.E., The City College of the City University of New York, Chemical Engineering

1987 M.S., Northwestern University, Biochemical Engineering

1984 B.S., Northwestern University (Xian, China), Chemical Engineering

Publications (selected)

1. Wang L, Jiang F, Liu W, et al. Water-mediated surface hydroxyl replenishment enables low-temperature CO-PROX over Pt/M-Fe (OH) x[J]. Applied Catalysis A: General, 2026: 120880.

2. Zhou B, Zhao B, Hu S, et al. Surface nucleation induced wetting film rupture: Stochastic or deterministic?[J]. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2026, 740: 140118.
3. Luo S, Yang Z, Cai X, et al. Dual‐Atom Dopants Activated Ruthenium Single‐Atom Alloy Boosting Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysis in Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzer[J]. Advanced Functional Materials, 2025: e24369.
4. Liu H, Hu L, Wang X, et al. High-throughput cultivation and screening of plant-promoting bacteria with nitrogen fixation from mangrove sediments[J]. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 2025, 136(10): lxaf235.
5. Chu Z, Zhao B, Chen Y, et al. Application of response surface methodology and thermogravimetric-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy on the recycling of graphite from spent lithium-ion batteries by ultrasonic-assisted water leaching and pyrolysis treatment[J]. Journal of Power Sources, 2025, 641: 236886.
6. Gao S, Li S, Shen J, et al. Assessment of heating rate and mixing ratio on the synergistic effects of co-pyrolysis of pine sawdust and high-density polyethylene[J]. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 2024, 181: 106615.
7. Zhao Z, Lyu J, Chu Y, et al. Toward generalizable robot vision guidance in real-world operational manufacturing factories: A Semi-Supervised Knowledge Distillation approach[J]. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 2024, 86: 102639.
8. Wang L, Li Q, Liu X, et al. Improved CO-PROX selectivity of CuO/CeO2 catalysts by decorating with lanthanum via surface Cuξ+ redox site[J]. Applied Surface Science, 2024, 649: 159087.
9. Li C, Liang Z, Wang L, et al. Superwettable electrolyte engineering for fast charging Li-ion batteries[J]. ACS Energy Letters, 2024, 9(3): 1295-1304. Hu S, Li J, Liu K, et al. Comparative study on distribution characteristics of anionic dispersants in coal water slurry[J]. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2022, 648: 129176.
10. Jiang F, Cao D, Hu S, et al. High-pressure carbon dioxide-hydrothermal enhance yield and methylene blue adsorption performance of banana pseudo-stem activated carbon[J]. Bioresource technology, 2022, 354: 127137.
11. Zhao B, Hu S, Zhao X, et al. The application of machine learning models based on particles characteristics during coal slime flotation[J]. Advanced Powder Technology, 2022, 33(1): 103363.
12. Chu C, Chen B, Li S, et al. Propane dehydrogenation by atomically thin platinum layer on pristine two-dimensional MXenes[J]. Journal of Catalysis, 2023, 425: 333-344.

Profile Details

Dr. Ke Liu is the Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of National Institute of Clean & Low-carbon Energy (NICE), and recently becomes the Vice President of Shenhua Research. He started his career at Exxon-Mobil in 1992, and then worked in United Technologies Corp (UTC) and General Electric over the years, and before he took the CTO position of NICE, he was the Gasification Platform Technology Leader & Principal Scientist of GE Global Research Center. Dr. Liu has numerous publications &over 65 patents & patent applications. He is the lead author of the book “Syngas and H2Production & Purification Technologies” which was published by John Wiley & Sons in 2009. Due to his active role in different energy fields, he was elected as the Board Member of the former “Power, Environmental & Energy Research Center of California Institute of Technology”, the Board Member of International Pittsburgh Coal Conference (PCC) Organization, an leading international organization in coal and related energy industry. He was also elected as the editor in chief of the “International Journal of Clean Coal and Energy”, as well as the associate editor of the “Energy and Fuels” Journal. He was selected to won numerous awards including the National Award for theMinorities in Research(2006 Emerald Honors Special Recognition Award).He obtained the Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from City University of New York, and Master of Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).