Bede Liu, a Taiwanese–American electrical engineer, died on May 7, 2026.
He was a professor emeritus at Princeton University. Born in Shanghai, China, on September 25, 1934, Liu earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1954 and went on to receive a master’s degree and Ph.D.
in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for contributions to digital signal processing algorithms and later to Academia Sinica in 2006. Liu also received the IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing and held several patents.
Bede Liu (Chinese: 劉必治; pinyin: Liú Bìzhì; September 25, 1934 – May 7, 2026) was a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer. He was a professor emeritus at Princeton University.