Education Background

2002.8 to 2006.1  Doctor of Management, School of Economics and Management,

 Tsinghua University

1994.8 to 1996.7  Master of Education, College of Humanities and Social Sciences,

Tsinghua University

1987.8 to 1992.7  Bachelor of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering,

                Tsinghua University

Work Experience

2024.11 to now     Party Secretary, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School

                 Research Professor, School of Education, Tsinghua University

2023.5-2023. 6   Visiting Scholar of Harvard

2017.1 -2024.11   Research Professor, Institute of Education, Tsinghua University

2006.9-2006.12   Visiting Scholar of MIT

1996.8-2017.5     Associate Professor to Research Professor, Office Director to

Deputy Dean, Graduate School , Tsinghua University

1992.8-1994.7    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Tsinghua University

Professional Service

Deputy director, Academic Committee of the Association of Chinese Graduate Education.

Director, Professional Committee of China Graduate Education.

Vice Chairman, Higher Education Management Branch, Chinese Association of Higher Education.

Member, National Evaluation Committee for the Establishment of higher college and university.

Deputy director, Editorial Committee of Journal of Graduate Education.

Teaching Program

Educational organization and management, a basic course for academic postgraduates

Educational leadership and management, a basic course for professional doctoral students

Practice of School Leadership, a minor course for undergraduates

Research Fields & Overview

Higher education policy and management, Graduate education, Engineering education, and

Future education and learning.

Higher education policy and management. Prof. LIU mainly carries out strategic planning and policy research on the demand for high-level talents for national strategic development, such as the "14th Five Year Plan" education reform and development strategy, the outline of the plan for building an education powerhouse (academic version), research on the coordinated construction of multiple entities in higher education powerhouse, and research on the progress and effectiveness of the "Double First Class" construction, providing policy consultation for the development of national education.

Graduate education. Prof. LIU mainly researches on talent selection, professional degree development, doctoral quality and discipline construction of graduate education. She had led the completion of "Professional Degree Development Plan 2020-2025", edited the "Annual Report on Graduate Education in China" 2018-2024 series, and participates in national policy consultation based on the research.

Engineering education. Prof. LIU mainly studies the cultivating of engineering talents at the graduate level and the cultivating model of typical engineering talents. She is the chief editor of "practice and innovation of Engineering postgraduate education". She puts forward policy suggestions on the establishment of professional degrees such as Engineering Doctor and Master of Engineering Management.

Future education and learning. The main goal is the free and comprehensive development of human beings, with the integration of humanities, science, and engineering as the research path, and the use of generative artificial intelligence and other technological methods to explore learning mechanisms, learning effectiveness, and future educational paradigm innovation.

Research Project

Research on the Reform of the "Double First-Class" Construction Mechanism, Major Commissioned Project of Philosophy and Social Science Research of the Ministry of Education, 2025.2-2028.2
Research on the Collaborative Development Mechanism of Education, Science and Technology and Talents for Future Industrial Innovation and Development, National Social Science Major Project, 2024.12-2027.6
Research on the overall evaluation of educational science and technology talents, Tsinghua University's "Double High" Plan for Liberal Arts Construction, 2024.12-2025.12
Research on Optimizing the Layout of Higher Education by Accelerating the Construction of World-class Universities with Chinese Characteristics and Advantageous Disciplines,  Tsinghua University National High-end Think Tank Research Mission, 2024.11-2025.11

Research on Empowering Higher Education Teaching with Generative Artificial Intelligence, Humanities Special Project of Tsinghua University's Independent Research Program, 2024.9-2026.12

Research on Optimizing the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of "Double First Class" Construction, Commissioned by the Degree Management and Graduate Education Department of the Ministry of Education, 2024.7-2024.12

Research on the Progress and Effectiveness of the "Double First Class" Construction, Commissioned by the Degree Management and Graduate Education Department of the Ministry of Education, 2024.4-2024.7

Outline of the Plan for Building an Education Strong Country (Academic Edition), commissioned by the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Education, 2023.3- 2023.6

Topic 5 of the Special Research Topic on Strengthening Higher Education: Research on the Multi subject Collaborative Construction of Strengthening Higher Education, commissioned by the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education, 2023.3- 2023.4

Research on the training of excellent engineers education in the new era, the 2022 key project of the National Education and Science Plan, the head of the sub-project, 2022.8-2025.7

Research on the goals and tasks of education development in the 14th five year plan, Major projects of the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Education, 2020.6-2021.6

International Comparative Study on indicators of education modernization, Commissioned by the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Education, 2020.8-2021.8

Professional degree development plan 2020-2025, Commissioned by the office of Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, 2019.3-2019.9

Research on the Cultivation Model based on Competency for Engineering Professional Degree Graduate Students, Key Project of Humanities and Social Sciences Research of the Ministry of Education, 2017.3- 2019.3

Research on the Cultivation Model of Innovative Professional Degree Graduate Students, Major Project of Philosophy and Social Sciences Research of the Ministry of Education, 2013.9-2016.12

Research on Changes in Social Needs and Governance of Graduate Education Structure, Major Project of the Association of Chinese Graduate Education, 2013.12- 2015.6

Research on the Mechanism and Model of High level Talent Cultivation Driven by Collaborative Innovation, Key Project of the Association of Chinese Graduate Education, 2013.6-2015.6

Research on the Selection Method of Engineering Master's Degree Talents, Major Project of the National Engineering Master's Education Guidance Committee, 2010.10-2011.10

Research on the Implementation of the Engineering Technology Leading Talent Training Program, commissioned by the Office of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, 2010.12- 2013.12

Fellowship, Honors and Awards

“Innovation and practice of Engineering Master Education Mechanism”, national special award for education and teaching achievements, September 2005

“Research and practice to master of engineering on the cultivating model of composite high level engineering and technical personnel”, second prize of national education and teaching achievement, December 2001

“Research on the outline of China's degree and postgraduate education development plan (2008-2020”), the second prize of the sixth outstanding achievements in scientific research of colleges and universities (HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES), Ministry of education, March 2013

“Degree and postgraduate education: strategy and planning”, the 12th first prize of outstanding achievements in philosophy and Social Sciences in Beijing, October 2012

"From Cognitive Science to Learning Science: Past, Present and Future", Third Prize of the 6th National Excellent Achievements in Educational Science Research, Ministry of Education, September 2021

Publications 

BOOKS

Liu Huiqin (Chief Editor) (2025). China Degree and Postgraduate Education Development Report 2023, Beijing: Social Science Literature Press.

Liu Huiqin (2025). International Comparison of Educational Modernization. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press.

Liu Huiqin (Chief Editor) (2024). China Degree and Postgraduate Education Development Report 2021-2022, Beijing: Social Science Literature Press

Liu Huiqin (Chief Editor) (2022). China Degree and Postgraduate Education Development Report 2020, Beijing: Social Science Literature Press

Liu Huiqin (Chief Editor) (2021). China Degree and Postgraduate Education Development Report 2019, Beijing: Social Science Literature Press

Liu Huiqin (Chief Editor) (2020). China Degree and Postgraduate Education Development Report 2018. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press.

Liu Huiqin (2007). Innovation Performance Evaluation of University Team: Model and Empirical Research. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press.

Liu Huiqin (Chief Editor) (2003). Practice and Innovation of Engineering Postgraduate Education. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press.

Xie Xishan & Liu Huiqin (Chief Editor) (2000). Research on Engineering Professional Master Degree in China. Beijing: Higher Education Press.

Xu Yuanchao & Liu Huiqin (Translated) (1999). Reshaping Postgraduate Education for Scientists and Engineers, Beijing: Science and Technology Literature Press.

ARTICLES

Recent first author or corresponding author articles:

Yu JF, Zhang-Li D, Zhang ZY et al (2026). From MOOC to MAIC: Reimagine online teaching and learning through LLM-driven agents. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2026.
Vol. 41, No. 1, DOI: 10.1007/s11390-025-6000-0, CSTR: 32374.14.s11390-025-6000-0

Yu Xiao, Li Zheng, Jingjing Niu, Huiqin Liu (2026). Practice makes a difference: the impact of practice duration on educational achievement in professional degree programs. Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-026-01638-w

A Causal Effect and Mechanism Analysis of the Layout of Academic Degree Conferring Units and the Development of Strategic Emerging Industry Enterprises. Journal of Graduate Education, 2026 (1)

Optimizing and Adjusting the Discipline Structure for Strategic Emerging Industries: An Analysis Based on Newly Approved Degree Programs. China Higher Education Research, 2025 (11)

The Empowering Role of Part-Time Industry-Based Faculty in Breakthrough Innovation: Impacts and Mechanisms. China Higher Education Research, 2025 (9)

An Analysis of the Integrated Innovation in Postgraduate Education Based on the New Characteristics of Generative Artificial Intelligence. Academic Degrees and Graduate Education, 2025 (9)

Evaluation of  World-class Universities with Chinese Characteristics Based on the Goal of Making China a Leading Country in Education. Journal of Graduate Education, 2025 (4)

Zhang, Z., Zhang-Li, D., Yu, J., Gong, L., Zhou, J., Hao, Z., ... & Li, J. (2025). Simulating classroom education with llm-empowered agents. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025 (NAACL 2025).

An Analysis of Basic Education System Reform from the Perspective of Strengthening Education, Journal of East China Normal University (Educational Sciences), 2025 (5)

Zhang-Li, D., Zhang, Z., Yu, J., Yin, J. L. J., Tu, S., Gong, L., ... & Li, J. (2025). Awaking the Slides: A Tuning-free and Knowledge-regulated AI Tutoring System via Language Model Coordination. Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2025 (KDD 2025).

Constructing High-presence Online Learning Environment via Multi-Agent Collaborative Interaction，Modern Educational Technology，2024（12）

Research on the synergistic driving pathways of government-industry-academia-research Collaboration for the development of new quality productive forces: a configuration analysis based on emerging digital intelligence industries, China Higher Education Research, 2024 (8)

Multiplying High-Quality Development: Synergy and Integration of Education, Science and Technology, and Talents, Tsinghua Journal of Education, 2024 (3)

Promoting the deep collaboration and support of education, science and technology, and talents to lead future industrial innovation and development, GuangMing Daily, 2024.6.10

Collaborative Governance of Higher Education for Future Industrial Innovation and Development, China Higher Education, 2024 (11)

The Evolution of the education system for professional degrees in China: the dynamic mechanism and internal logic. Educational Research, 2023 (11)

The Impact and Implications of Industrial Development on the Structure of Graduate Education Disciplines in the United States: An Integrated Perspective Based on Industrial Structure and Expected Income Changes. China Higher Education Research, 2023 (9)

Jin Tianyu, Liu Huiqin (2023). The Heterogeneous Effect of Post-Compulsory Education on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence Based on Marginal Treatment Effect. Applied Research in Quality of Life. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11482-023-10210-y

Xu, Z., Gao, X., Wei, J., Liu, H., & Zhang, Y. (2023). Adolescent user behaviors on short video application, cognitive functioning and academic performance. Computers & Education, https://www.elsevier.com/locate/compedu/203, 104865

The Role Types and Changing Trends of China’s University Presidents. China Higher Education Research, 2023 (1)

Key Competences for Talent Cultivation of Higher Education: Perspectives of International Organizations and Inspirations for China. China Higher Education Research, 2022 (12)

The accreditation system of graduate programs in engineering education in Germany and its enlightenment, Academic Degrees and Graduate Education, 2022 (11)

The Humanistic Attributes of Educational Inputs and Outputs. Educational Research, 2022 (8)

The Integral Paradigm Aiming at Educational Practice Improvement——The Crises and Reconstruction of Mainstream Educational Research Paradigms. Tsinghua Journal of Education, 2021 (4)

A Comparative Study on the Higher Education Structures in China and U.S. in the Process Toward Higher Education Popularization, China Higher Education Research, 2021 (7)

Empirical generation and logical reasoning: two approaches of higher education theory. Tsinghua Journal of Education, 2020 (6)

On the path, progress and orientation of the discipline construction for postgraduate pedagogy. Journal of Graduate Education, 2020 (3)

Research on the construction of graduate education development index. Tsinghua Journal of Education, 2020 (2)