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Xue Liu

Assistant Professor,
School of Computer Science, and
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering (by courtesy),
McGill University

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McConnell Engineering Building, Room 318
3480 University Street
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2A7
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Brief Biography

Dr. Xue Liu is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University. He is also an Assistant Professor (by courtesy) of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, an associated member of the Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM), and an associated member of the Centre for Advanced Systems and Technologies in Communications (SYTACom).

Dr. Liu is the founding director of the Cyber-Physical Systems Lab (CPSL) at McGill University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. He obtained his B.S. degree in Mathematics and M.S. degree in Automatic Control both from Tsinghua University, China. He worked briefly in the Hewlett-Packard Labs and IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Liu received the Ray Ozzie Fellowship, the Saburo Muroga Fellowship, the Mavis Memorial Fund Award, and the C. W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Award, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has filed 5 patents, and published more than 80 research papers in international journals and major peer-reviewed conference proceedings, including the 2008 best paper award from the IEEE Transactions of Industrial Informatics. Dr. Liu's research has been supported by NSERC Discovery Grant, NSERC Strategic Grant, FQRNT, and Canadian Foundation for Innovation.

News of the CPS Lab

2009.11: Four papers accepted by IEEE Infocom 2010 (acceptance rate = 276/1575 = 17.5%), to be held at San Diego, California.

2009.11: Publicity Plug: The Ph.D. Student Form on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) will be held in conjunction with RTSS 2009 . Eighteen Ph.D. students' essays describing novel ideas and different interesting research aspects in cyber-physical computing will be presented at the forum.

2009.11: Publicity Plug: I am serving as a Program Co-Chair of The 7th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS-2010), Please consider submitting your work to ICESS!

2009.10: Publicity Plug: The submission deadline of IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2010), is approaching, please consider submitting your work to it!

2009.08: Our paper: "ORTEGA: An Efficient and Flexible Online Fault Tolerance Architecture for Real-Time Control Systems" has been awarded as the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics' (TII) 2008 Best Paper Award.

2009.08: Accepted Program Vice Chair invitation of IEEE Sensors, Ubiquitous, and Trusted Computing conference (SUTC 2010), Cyber-Physical Systems Track. Please consider submitting your work to SUTC.

2009.07: Dr. Liu received Canada Foundation for Innovation Leaders Opportunities Fund (Single PI) for research on Networked Embedded Systems

2009.07: Our paper entitled "SReD: A Secure Reputation-Based Dynamic Window Scheme for Disruption-Tolerant Networks" is accepted by MILCOM 2009.

2009.06: Publicity Plug: Accepted invitation of Track Chair of Wireless Sensor networks, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2010, Please consider submitting your great work to this venue and attend the CPS week 2010!

2009.06: Two papers are accepted by IEEE MASS 2009.

2009.05: Dr. Liu received the FQRNT New Researcher Grant Award (Single PI)

2009.04: Publicity Plug: I am co-organizing the 1st ACM International Workshop on Medical-grade Wireless Networks (WiMD 2009), in conjunction with ACM MobiHoc 2009, which will be held in May, 2009 in New Orleans, LA. Please consider submitting a paper to this venue.

2009.04: Accepted TPC invitation of IEEE RTSS 2009, sensor network track.

2009.03: Accepted TPC invitation of IEEE Infocom 2010.

2009.03: As Program Vice-Chair organizing Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing track of the 12th IEEE Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2009), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2009

2009.03: Our paper entitled "Performance of Bulk Data Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks" is accepted by IEEE DCOSS 2009. (acceptance rate = 26/116 = 22.4%.)

2009.02: Our paper entited "EUL: an Efficient and Universal Localization Method for Wireless Sensor Networks" is accepted by ICDCS 2009. (acceptance rate = 75/455 = 16.3%.)

2009.01: Master student of our group, Weihuan Shu 's Master thesis is selected for Dean's Honor List at McGill. Congratulations to Weihuan!

2009.01: Two papers accepted by ACC 2009. One paper is about our work on reduced dimension control using PCA. The other is about our work on adaptive critic design for uncertain nonlinear systems.

Publicity Plug: I am co-organizing the Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2009), in conjunction with ICDCS 2009, which will be held in June, 2009 in Montreal. Please consider submitting a paper to this venue.

2008.10: Paper on On-Demand Real-Time GuArd for real-time control systems is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.

2008.09: Paper on Queueing-Model-Based Adaptive Control of Multi-Tiered Web Applications is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

2008.08: Paper on performance optimization with real-time routing in sensor networks is accepted by RTSS 2008.

2008.08: Paper on SAT-based throughput optimization for multiprocessor platform is accepted by RTSS 2008.

2008.07: Accepted TPC invitation of ICDCS 2009.

2008.04: Paper "Lightning: A Hard Real-Time, Fast, and Lightweight Low-End Wireless Sensor Election Protocol for Acoustic Event Localization", is selected as the Featured Article of IEEE Transactions of Mobile Computing May 2008 Issue.

2008.04: 2 papers are accepted by FeBID 2008.

2008.03: Paper on ORTEGA is accepted by ECRTS 2008.

2008.03: Accepted TPC invitation of Infocom 2009.

2008.03: Paper on FIT is accepted by IEEE DCOSS 2008. (acceptance rate = 29/116 = 25%.)

2008.02: Paper on McCLS is accepted by the First International Workshop of Cyber-Physical Systems 2008.

2008.02: Accepted TPC invitation of RTSS 2008 Sensor Network Track.

2008.01: Paper on Personalized Interactive Faceted Search is accepted by WWW 2008

2008.01: Paper on Tradeoff Between Sampling Rates and Data Accuracy is accepted by ACC 2008
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Looking for Postdoc Student/Visitor

I am looking for an enthusiastic and motivated postdoctoral student or research associate, working in the broad areas of real-time systems and networking. Background in real-time, wireless networks, aviation, math, feedback control, or other Electrical Engineering-related subjects is a plus. Please contact me with your CV (with past research projects, experiences, and publications).

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Multiple Undergraduate and Master Projects Available

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