ECE FACULTY

K.J. Ray Liu

Title: Christine Yurie Kim Eminent Professor of Information Technology and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and Research, ECE
Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland
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 was named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher of University of Maryland in 2007, where he is Christine Kim Eminent Professor of Information Technology. He serves as Associate Chair of Graduate Studies and Research of the 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 10 books and 550 refereed papers.

Dr. Liu is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the 1993 National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Initiation Award and 1994 NSF Young Investigator Award; best paper awards from IEEE Signal Processing Society, Vehicular Technology Society, and EURASIP; IEEE Signal Processing Society 2004 Distinguished Lecturer; and EURASIP 2004 Meritorious Service Award. Dr. Liu is the recipient of 2009 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and AAAS. His research was featured as one of seven technologies that IEEE believes will have the world changing implications on the way humans interact with machines, the world and each other, in honor of IEEE's 125th Anniversary.

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; Invention of the Year Award from Office of Technology Commercialization, as well as the George Corcoran Award for outstanding contributions to electrical engineering education from Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and the Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award in recognition of outstanding contributions in interdisciplinary research from Institute for Systems Research.

Dr. Liu is President-Elect of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was Vice President - Publications and has been a member-at-large on the Board of Governor of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is a founder of Asia-Pacific Association of Signal and Information Processing (APSIPA). Dr. Liu was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, the founding Editor-in-Chief of EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (JASP, now called EURASIP Journal on Advances in 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.

Dr. Liu has served as the General Chair of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hawaii; a Co-General Chair of the First APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (ASC) in Sapporo, 2009; the Chair of Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee; Technical Program Chair of 2003 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. He has delivered keynotes in various international conferences and workshops. He has been consultants to industry and also has served occasionally as expert consultant/witness for legal proceedings.

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, special issue on cooperative communications and networking of IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on signal and information processing for social networks of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics on Signal Processing, and special issue on Signal and Information Processing for Social Learning and Networking of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine..

He is a co-author of Cognitive Radio Networking and Security – A Game Theoretic View, Cambridge University Press, 2010; Cooperative Communications and Networking, Cambridge University Press, 2009; 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.

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