CURRICULUM VITAE

Jie Liu, Ph.D.

Senior Member of Research Staff

Palo Alto Research Center (formerly Xerox PARC)

3333 Coyote Hill Rd.

Palo Alto, CA 94304

 

Phone: (650) 812-4369

Fax: (650) 812-4334

email: jieliu AT parc DOT com

home page: http://www2.parc.com/spl/members/jieliu

 

Areas of Research:

Embedded systems and applied systems theory, with focus on sensor networks and control systems.

Education:

Ph.D. in EECS, University of California at Berkeley, 2001

Advisor: Prof. Edward A. Lee

Thesis: Responsible Frameworks for Heterogeneous Modeling and Design of Embedded Systems

Committee: Edward A. Lee (Chair), Shankar S. Sastry, and John Strain

M.S. in EECS, University of California at Berkeley, 1998

Advisor: Prof. Edward A. Lee
Thesis: Continuous-time and Mixed Signal Modeling in Ptolemy II

Committee: Edward A. Lee (Chair) and Chris Pister

M.E. in Automatic Control, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1996

Advisor: Prof. Deyun Xiao

B.E. in Automatic Control, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1993

               

Experiences:

·        Nov. 2001 - present, Senior Member of Research Staff, Embedded Collabora­tive Computing Area, PARC, working on collaborative sensor networks, with focus on pro­gramming models and software synthesis.

·        Aug. 1996 - Nov. 2001, Graduate Student Researcher, EECS, UC Berkeley, working on the Ptolemy project, contributing to actor-oriented design methodol­ogies, block-diagram syntax, abstract semantics (responsible frameworks), mixed-signal and hybrid system modeling, timed multitasking model of computation and software synthesis, and actor-oriented distributed computing.

·        Summer 2000, Research Intern at Agilent Labs, Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA, working on run-time models for embedded software in measure­ment and control systems.

·        Spring 1999 and Spring 2000, Teaching Assistant and head teaching assistant, EECS, UC Berkeley, for EECS20: Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems.

·        Before 1996, Summer Interns at various companies in China working on embedded system, information management system, and software design.

Honors and Awards:

·        Technical Advance Award for excellent research in sensor networks, PARC, 2003.

·        Leon O. Chua Award for outstanding research in nonlinear science, EECS, UC Berkeley, 2001

·        UC Regents Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1996-97

·        Tsinghua Extraordinary Student Award, Tsinghua University, 1996

·        Siemens Fellowship, Tsinghua University, 1996

·        President Jiang Nanxiang Fellowship, Tsinghua University,1995

·        Top-10 Graduate Students, Tsinghua University, 1995

·        First-Class Guanghua Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 1994

·        “Dec. 9th” Memorial Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 1993

·        Distinguished Student Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 1988-92

Publications:

Journal Papers and Book Chapters:

1.      Jie Liu, Maurice Chu, Juan Liu, James Reich, and Feng Zhao, “State-Centric Programming for Sensor-Actuator Network Systems.” IEEE Pervasive Computing, October, 2003, pp.50-62.

2.      Juan Liu, Jie Liu, James Reich, Patrick Cheung, and Feng Zhao, “Distributed Group Management for Track Initiation and Maintenance in Target Localization Applications,” to appear in Telecommunication Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

3.      Jie Liu, Johan Eker, Jorn W. Janneck, Xiaojun Liu, and Edward A. Lee, “Actor-Oriented Control System Design: A Responsible Framework Perspective” to appear in IEEE Trans. on Control System Technology, 2004.

4.      Feng Zhao, Jie Liu, Juan Liu, Leonidas Guibas, and James Reich, “Collaborative Signal and Information Processing: An Information Directed Approach”, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 91. No. 8, August, 2003, pp. 1199-1209.

5.      Xiaojun Liu, Jie Liu, Edward A. Lee, and Johan Eker, “Heterogeneous Modeling and Design of Control Systems,” in Tariq Samad and Gary Balas (eds.), Software Enabled Control :Information Technology for Dynamical Systems, Wiley-IEEE Press, April 2003

6.      Jie Liu and Edward A. Lee, “Timed Multitasking for Real-Time Embedded Software,” IEEE Control Systems, special issue on Software-Enabled Control, vol. 23, no. 1, January, 2003, pp 65-75.

7.      Johan Eker, Jorn W. Janneck, Edward A. Lee, Jie Liu, Xiaojun Liu, Jozsef Lud­vig, Stephen Neuendorffer, Sonia Sachs, and Yuhong Xiong, “Taming Hetero­geneity—the Ptolemy Approach,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 91, no. 1, January, 2003, pp. 127-144.

8.      Jie Liu and Edward A. Lee, “A Component-Based Approach to Modeling and Simulating Mixed-Signal and Hybrid Systems,” ACM Trans. on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Vol. 12, No. 4, October, 2002, pp. 343-368.

9.      Jie Liu, Bicheng Wu, Xiaojun Liu, and Edward A. Lee, “Interoperation of Het­erogeneous CAD Tools in Ptolemy II,” Journal of Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems, Vol. 2, No. 1, Pages 1-10, 2001.

Conference Papers:

1.      Qing Fang, Jie Liu, Leonidas Guibas, and Feng Zhao, “RoamHBA: Maintaining Group Connectivity in Sensor Networks,” submitted to the 3rd International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN’04), Berkeley, CA, April, 2004. 

2.      Juan Liu, Maurice Chu, Jie Liu, Jim Reich, and Feng Zhao, “Distributed State Representation for Tracking Problems in Sensor Networks,” submitted to the 3rd International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN’04), Berkeley, CA, April, 2004. 

3.      Xue Yang, Jie Liu, and Nitin Vaidya, “A Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Protocol for Cooperative Collision Warning,” submitted to the 5th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2004), Tokyo, Japan, May 2004.

4.      Jie Liu and Edward A. Lee, “On the Causality of Mixed-Signal and Hybrid Models,” The 6th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC’03), Prague, Czech, April, 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS2623), Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, pp. 328 - 342.

5.      Juan Liu, Jie Liu, James Reich, Patrick Cheung, and Feng Zhao, “Distributed Group Management for Track Initiation and Maintenance in Target Localization Applications,” The 2nd International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN’03), Palo Alto, CA, April 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 2634), Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, pp. 113-128.

6.      Elaine Cheong, Judy Liebman, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, “TinyGALS: A Programming Model for Event-Driven Embedded Systems”, The 18th ACM Sym­posium on Applied Computing (SAC’03), Melbourne, FL, March, 2003, pp. 698-704.

7.      Twan Basten, Luca Benini, Anantha Chandrakasan, Menno Lindwer, Jie Liu, Rex Min, and Feng Zhao, “Scaling into Ambient Intelligence,” The 6th Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conference (DATE’03), Munich, Germany, March 2003, pp. 76-83.

8.      Jie Liu, Patrick Cheung, Leonidas Guibas, and Feng Zhao, “A Dual-Space Approach to Tracking and Sensor Management in Wireless Sensor Networks,” The 1st ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Appli­cations (WSNA 2002), Atlanta, GA, Sept. 28, 2002, pp. 131-139.

9.      Jie Liu, Johan Eker, Jorn W. Janneck, and Edward A. Lee, “Realistic Simulation of Embedded Control Systems,” The 15th IFAC World Congress (IFAC'02), Barcelona, Spain, July, 2002.

10.  Johan Eker, Chamberlain Fong, Jorn W. Janneck, and Jie Liu, “Design and Simulation of Heterogeneous Control Systems using Ptolemy II,” Proceedings of the IFAC Conference on New Technologies for Computer Control (NTCC’01), Hong Kong, China, Nov. 2001.

11.  Jie Liu, Stanley Jefferson, and Edward A. Lee, “Motivating Hierarchical Run-Time Models for Measurement and Control Systems,” 2001 American Control Conference (ACC’01), Arlington, VA, June 2001.

12.  Jie Liu, Xiaojun Liu, and Edward A. Lee, “Modeling Distributed Hybrid Systems in Ptolemy II,” invited tutorial, 2001 American Control Conference (ACC’01), Arlington, VA, June 2001.

13.  Jie Liu and Edward A. Lee, “Component-based Hierarchical Modeling of Systems with Continuous and Discrete Dynamics," 2000 IEEE Symposium on     Computer-Aided Control System Design (CACSD’00), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, September, 2000, pp 95-100.

14.  Jie Liu, Xiaojun Liu, T. John Koo, Bruno Sinopoli, Shankar Sastry, and Edward A. Lee, “A Hierarchical Hybrid System Model and Its Simulation,” 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC’99), Phoenix, Arizona, December 1999. pp. 3508-3513.

15.  Jie Liu, Bicheng Wu, Xiaojun Liu, and Edward A. Lee, “Interoperation of Heterogeneous CAD Tools in Ptolemy II,” in Symposium on Design, Test, and Microfabrication of MEMS/MOEMs, March 1999, Paris, France. pp. 249-258.

16.  Jie Liu, Marcello Lajolo, and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, “Software Timing Analysis Using HW/SW Cosimulation and Instruction Set Simulator,” Proc. of the Sixth International Workshop on Hardware/Software Codesign (CODES/CASHE '98), pp. 65-70, March 1998.

17.  Jie Liu and Deyun Xiao, “Design and Implementation of An Intelligent Fault Diagnose Platform,” IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 250-254, Beijing, China, Oct. 1996.

18.  Jie Liu and Deyun Xiao, “Design of An Architecture for Real-Time Fault Prediction Expert Systems,” The 8th Chinese Conference on Decision and Con­trol, pp. 1004-1008, Jinan, China, May 1996.

Thesis and Selected Technical Reports

1.      Jie Liu, Responsible Frameworks for Heterogeneous Modeling and Design of Embedded Systems, Ph.D. dissertation, Technical Memorandum UCB/ERL M01/41, University of California, Berkeley, Dec. 2001.

2.      Jie Liu, Continuous Time and Mixed-Signal Simulation in Ptolemy II, Master thesis, UCB/ ERL Memorandum No. M98/74, Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley, CA 94720, Dec. 1998.

3.      Adam Cataldo, Christopher Hylands, Edward A. Lee, Jiu Liu, Xiaojun Liu, Steve Neuendorffer, Haiyang Zheng “HyVisual: A Hybrid System Visual Modeler,” Technical Memorandum UCB/ERL M03/30, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, July 17, 2003.

4.      C. Hylands, E. A. Lee, J. Liu, X. Liu, S. Neuendorffer, Y. Xiong, H. Zheng (eds.), “Heterogeneous Concurrent Modeling and Design in Java,(Volume 1:Introduction to Ptolemy II),” Technical Memorandum UCB/ERL M03/27, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA 94720, July 16, 2003.

5.      C. Hylands, E. A. Lee, J. Liu, X. Liu, S. Neuendorffer, Y. Xiong, H. Zheng, (eds.), “Heterogeneous Concurrent Modeling and Design in Java (Volume 2: Ptolemy II Software Architecture),” TechnicalMemorandum UCB/ERL M03/28, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA 94720, July 16, 2003.

6.      C. Hylands, E. A. Lee, J. Liu, X. Liu, S. Neuendorffer, Y. Xiong, H. Zheng (eds.), “Heterogeneous Concurrent Modeling and Design in Java (Volume 3: Ptolemy II Domains),” TechnicalMemorandum UCB/ERL M03/29, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA 94720, July 16, 2003.

7.      Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, Elaine Cheong, John Davis II, Mudit Goel, Christo­pher Hylands, Bart Kienhuis, Edward A. Lee, Jie Liu, Xiaojun Liu, Lukito Muliadi, Steve Neuendorffer, John Reekie, Neil Smyth, Jeff Tsay, Brian Vogel, Winthrop Williams, Yuhong Xiong, Haiyang Zheng, “Heterogeneous Concur­rent Modeling and Design in Java,” Memorandum UCB/ERL M02/23, Univer­sity of California, Berkeley, CA USA 94720, August 5, 2002.

8.      John Davis II, Christopher Hylands, Bart Kienhuis, Edward A. Lee, Jie Liu, Xiaojun Liu, Lukito Muliadi, Steve Neuendorffer, Jeff Tsay, Brian Vogel, and Yuhong Xiong, “Heterogeneous Concurrent Modeling and Design in Java,” Technical Memorandum UCB/ERL M01/12, EECS, University of California, Berkeley, March 15, 2001.

9.      John Davis II, Mudit Goel, Christopher Hylands, Bart Kienhuis, Edward A. Lee, Jie Liu, Xiaojun Liu, Lukito Muliadi, Steve Neuendorffer, John Reekie, Neil Smyth, Jeff Tsay and Yuhong Xiong, “Overview of the Ptolemy Project,” UCB/ERL Memorandum No. M99/37, Dept. of EECS, University of Califor­nia, Berkeley, CA 94720, July 1999

10.  Jie Liu, “Fault Prognostics Software Kit,” master report with honor, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1996.

Patents Filing:

1.      “Systems and Methods for Distributed Group Formation and Maintenance in Geographically-Based Networks,” with James Reich and Juan Liu

2.      “Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Protocol,” with Xue Yang and Feng Zhao.

 

Membership:

IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM.

Services:

  • Technical Program Committee Member of:
    • The 19th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC2004), embedded system track
    • 2004 Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE2004), special topic on design methods for emerging technologies and applications
    • Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN2004)
    • The 10th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS2004)
  • Also Peer Reviewer for: CDC2000, CASES2001, DAC2003, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, SENSYS2003, MobiHoc2003, Software Enabled Control (book chapters), Ambient Intelligence: Impact on Embedded-System Design (book chapters), UbiComp2003, etc..

 

References:

  • Available upon request.