ECE FACULTY

K.J. Ray Liu

Title: Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Professor & Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and Research
Areas/Affiliations: ECE
E-mail: kjrliu@umd.edu
Phone: 301-405-6619
Office: 2232 Kim Bldg
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Website: http://www.cspl.umd.edu/kjrliu/

Biography:

Dr. Liu received the B.S. degree from the National Taiwan University in 1983, and the Ph.D. degree from UCLA in 1990, both in electrical engineering. He is Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies and Research of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Liu is Director of Communications and Signal Processing Laboratories and leads the Maryland Signals and Information Group (SIG) with research contributions that encompass broad aspects of wireless communications and networking; multimedia communications and signal processing; information forensics and security; biomedical imaging and bioinformatics; and signal processing algorithms and architectures, in which he has published over 450 refereed papers, books, and book chapters.

Dr. Liu is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the National Science Foundation 1993 Research Initiation Award (RIA) and 1994 National Young Investigator (NYI) Award, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 1993 and 2005, EURASIP Best Paper Award in 2004, IEEE 50th Vehicular Technology Conference Best Paper Award in 1999, IEEE Signal Processing Society 2004 Distinguished Lecturer, and EURASIP 2004 Meritorious Service Award. Dr. Liu is a Fellow of the IEEE.

He was named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher of University of Maryland in 2007. He also received various research and teaching recognitions from the University of Maryland, including Poole and Kent Senior Faculty Teaching Award and Outstanding Faculty Research Award, both from A. James Clark School of Engineering; 2004 Invention of the Year Award from Office of Technology Commercialization, as well as the George Corcoran Award in 1994 for outstanding contributions to electrical engineering education from Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and the Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award in 1996 in recognition of outstanding contributions in interdisciplinary research from Institute for Systems Research.

Dr. Liu was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, the founding Editor-in-Chief of EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, and the prime architect and proposer of IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security and IEEE Journal on Selected Topics of Signal Processing. He has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and has been a Guest Editor of special issues on Multimedia Signal Processing of Proceedings of the IEEE, special issue on Signal Processing for Wireless Communications of IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on Multimedia Communications over Networks of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, special issue on Multimedia over IP of IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, and special issue on cooperative communications and networking of IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications.

Dr. Liu is Vice President - Publications and on the Board of Governor of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He has served as the General Chair of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hawaii, 2007, the Chair of Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee, Technical Program Chair of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, a panelist for various events of National Science Foundation, DARPA, and international conferences, and various capacities in organizing international conferences and workshops. He has been consultants to industry and also has served occasionally as expert consultant/witness for legal proceedings.

He is a co-author of Cooperative Communications and Networking, Cambridge University Press, 2008; Resource Allocation for Wireless Networks: Basics, Techniques, and Applications, Cambridge University Press, 2008; Ultra-Wideband Communication Systems: The Multiband OFDM Approach, Wiley, 2007; Network-Aware Security for Group Communications, Springer, 2007; Multimedia Fingerprinting Forensics for Traitor Tracing, EURASIP Book Series on Signal Processing and Communication (Hindawi), 2005; Design of Digital Video Coding Systems: A Complete Compressed Domain Approach, Marcel Dekker, 2001; and a co-editor of Handbook on Array Processing and Sensor Networks, IEEE-Wiley, 2009 and High Performance VLSI Signal Processing: Volume I: System Design and Methodology; Vol. II: Algorithms, Architectures, and Applications, IEEE Press, 1998.

Research Interests:

* Signal processing algorithms and architectures.
* Multimedia communications and signal processing.
* Wireless communications and networking.
* Information security.
* Bioinformatics.

Spotlight on Research: Towards Maximum Achievable Diversity in Space, Time, and Frequency in Broadband Wireless Communications

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