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PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER
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About Me:
I am a Principal Researcher and a Research Manager at Microsoft Research, leading the Sensing and Energy Research Group (SERG). My group conducts foundamental and systems research on sensing and energy-efficient computing.
My personal research interests root in understanding and managing the physical properties of computing. Examples include timing, location, energy, and the awareness of and impact on the physical world. I worked on actor-oriented modeling, simulation, programming models, low power network protocol designs, resource management & control, mobile context extraction and management, and novel mobile and cloud applications. My recent projects range from sensor networks, mobile computing, to data centers.
Before joining MSR in May 2004, I was a researcher at Palo Alto Research Center (formerly Xerox PARC). Since 2008, I also hold an adjunct professorship (Foreign PhD Advisor) at Harbin Institute of Technology, China. I got my Ph.D. degree from EECS, UC Berkeley in 2001; got my Master (1996) and Bachelor (1993) degrees from Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
I am a Distinguished Scientist of ACM since 2011. I have received the Exceptional Student Award (清华大学优秀学生特等奖 -- the highest student award) from Tsinghua University in 1996, Leon O. Chua Award for outstanding research from UC Berkeley in 2001, Technology Advance Award from PARC in 2003, and Gold Star Award from Microsoft in 2008.
From 2008 to 2011, I was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing. Currently, I am a TPC co-Chair for IEEE PerCom 2012. Recently, I have been the General Chair for ACM SenSys 2011, a General co-Chair PerCom 2011, a TPC co-chair for SenSys 2009 and IPSN/SPOT 2008, and a founding co-chair for PhoneSense 2010 and a co-chair of FeBID 2009. I served on various NSF review panels, on the TPC of conferences such as SenSys, IPSN, RTAS, RTSS, ICDCS, DAC, and DATE, and as a reviewer for various journals.
Research Projects:
- Subjective Sensing: Personalized sensing and service delivery.
- Data Center Genome:
Data centers consume billions of KWh every year. In this project, we aim to understand the complex physical and cyber dynamics among system load, computing, networking, and cooling through networked sensing and control. The goal is to advance the way equipments are provisioned, loads are distributed, and systems are operated in data centers. - SONGO: Search ON the GO
- SenseWeb: Geo-indexed realtime sensors on Local Live.
Past projects
- SONGS: Service-Oriented Network of Generic Sensors
- MSR Sense: Networked Embedded Sensing Toolkit
- Collaborative Sensing (CoSense) at PARC, part of DARPA SensIT program
- Ptolemy and Ptolemy II at UC Berkeley, partially supported by
- DARPA Model-Based Integration of Embedded Software (Mobies) program
- DARPA Software Enabled Control (SEC) program
- DARPA Composite CAD program
Community Services:
- Associated Editor: IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, 2008~2011
- Area Editor, SIMULATION, Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 2004~2007
- General Chair/Co-chair: SenSys 2011, PerCom 2011
- TPC Chair/Co-chair: IEEE PerCom 2012, ICDCS 2011 Wireless and Mobile Computing Track, SenSys 2009, IPSN 2008/SPOTS track.
- Workshop Chair/Co-Chair: PhoneSense 2010, FeBID 2009, Basenets 2006, ACM Multimedia Workshop 2006.
- Finance chair: Sensys 2008, IPSN 2009
- Demo/Poster co-chair: Sensys 2006, SECON 2007
- Technical Program Committee:
- 2011: IPSN, ICDCS
- 2010: IPSN, RTSS, MobiCom posters, WEED
- 2009: SenSys, ICDCS, DATE, FeBID, Pervasive demos, WEED
- 2008: IPSN/SPOTS, ICDCS,
- 2007: SenSys, RTSS, ChinaCom
- 2006: IPSN, Basenets, ICDCS
- Sriram Govindan, Jie Liu, Aman Kansal, and Anand Sivasubramaniam, Cuanta: Quantifying Effects of Shared On-chip Resource Interference for Consolidated Virtual Machines, in ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), ACM, 27 October 2011
- Heitor S. Ramos, Tao Zhang, Jie Liu, Bodhi Priyantha, and Aman Kansal, LEAP: A Low Energy Assisted GPS for Trajectory-Based Services, in 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), ACM, 17 September 2011
- Harold Lim, Aman Kansal, and Jie Liu, Power Budgeting for Virtualized Data Centers, in 2011 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '11), USENIX, 15 June 2011
- Jie Liu, Michel Goraczko, Sean James, Christian Belady, Jiakang Lu, and Kamin Whitehouse, The Data Furnace: Heating Up with Cloud Computing, in 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, USENIX, June 2011
- David Chu, Aman Kansal, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, Mobile Apps: It’s Time to Move Up to CondOS, in 13th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XIII), USENIX, 9 May 2011
- Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Dimitrios Lymberpoulos, Karin Strauss, Jie Liu, and Doug Burger, Pocket Cloudlets, in ASPLOS 2011 (International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ACM, March 2011
- Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Nissanka Bodhi Priyantha, Jie Liu, and Andreas Terzis, Surviving Wi-Fi Interference in Low Power ZigBee Networks, in Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2010), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2 November 2010
- Jie Liu, Automatic Server to Circuit Mapping with The Red Pills, in 2010 Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower '10), USENIX, 3 October 2010
- Aman Kansal, Feng Zhao, Jie Liu, Nupur Kothari, and Arka Bhattacharya, Virtual Machine Power Metering and Provisioning , in ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 10 June 2010
- Abdullah Mueen, Suman Nath, and Jie Liu, Fast Approximate Correlation for Massive Time-series Data, in SIGMOD '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2010
- Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Jie Liu, Liqian Luo, Andreas Terzis, and Feng Zhao, RACNet: A High-Fidelity Data Center Sensing Network, in Proceedings of The 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2009), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2009
- Galen Reeves, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, and Feng Zhao, Managing Massive Time Series Streams with Multi-Scale Compressed Trickles, in VLDB '2009: Proceedings of 35th Conference on Very Large Data Bases , Very Large Data Bases Endowment Inc., August 2009
- Sorabh Gandhi, Suman Nath, Subhash Suri, and Jie Liu, GAMPS: Compressing Multi Sensor Data by Grouping and Amplitude Scaling, in ACM SIGMOD, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2009
- Jie Liu, Feng Zhao, Jeff O'Reilly, Amaya Souarez, Michael Manos, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, and Andreas Tersiz, Project Genome: Wireless Sensor Network for Data Center Cooling, in The Architecture Journal, Microsoft, December 2008
- Michel Goraczko, Jie Liu, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Slobodan Matic, Bodhi Priyantha, and Feng Zhao, Energy-Optimal Software Partitioning in Heterogeneous Multiprocessor Embedded Systems, in The 45th Design Automation Conference (DAC 2008), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2008
- Gong Chen, Wenbo He, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Leonidas Rigas, Lin Xiao, and Feng Zhao, Energy-aware server provisioning and load dispatching for connection-intensive internet services, in NSDI'08: Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2008
- Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing, in IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 8–13, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, October 2007
- Yang Zhao, Jie Liu, and Edward A. Lee, A Programming Model for Time-Synchronized Distributed Real-Time Systems, in 13th IEEE Real Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2007), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., April 2007
- Zoe Abrams and Jie Liu, Greedy is Good: On Service Tree Placement for In-Network Stream Processing, in Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., July 2006
- Jie Liu, Elaine Cheong, and Feng Zhao, Semantics-Based Optimization Across Uncoordinated Tasks in Networked Embedded Systems, in Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT 2005), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., September 2005
- Siddharth Seth, Alec Woo, Tim Olson, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, A spreadsheet toolkit for streaming sensor data, in Embedded networked sensor systems, January 2005
Here is my full publication list.
Sensing and Energy Research Group
Recent Academic Services:
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TPC Co-Chair: IEEE PerCom 2012
Publications
Teaching
- Winter 2008, Univ. of Washington CSE590K: Analysis and Control of Computing Systems Using Linear Discrete-Time System Theory
News/Blog Coverage
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New York Times: Turn On the Server. It’s Cold Inside.
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Slashdot: Why Waste Servers' Heat?
- Green Data Center Blog: Microsoft Research Paper, Measuring Energy use of a Virtual Machine
- Gigaom: Microsoft Joulemeter: Using Software to Green the Data Center
- MIT Technology Review: Saving Energy in Data Centers
- Popular science (Popsci.com): Microsoft Practices Sensor-ship
- KOMO4 News: Microsoft Research: From cells to solar system
- IDG News (appeared on PC World, Computer World, etc.): Microsoft shows off Data-center Monitoring System
- New Scientist: Delaying data could cut net's carbon footprint.
Past Intern Students
I had the privilege to work with the following bright intern students in the past several years:
- Elaine Cheong ('02, '04, UC Berkeley), now at Cisco
- Judy Liebman ('02, EECS, UC Berkeley), now at LLNL
- Qing Fang ('03, CS, Stanford)
- Xue Yang ('03, ECE, UIUC), now at Intel Labs
- Jason Bayer ('03, EECS, UC Berkeley)
- Kamin Whitehouse ('04, CS, UC Berkeley), now Prof. at UVA
- Prabal Dutta ('04, CS, UC Berkeley) now Prof. at U. of Minnesota
- Zoe Abrams ('05, CS, Stanford), now at Google
- Ryan Newton ('05, CSAIL, MIT) at Intel
- Andre Santanche ('06, CS, Univ. of San Paulo, UNICAMP, Brazil) now Prof. at UNICAMP
- Slobodan Matic ('06, EECS, UC Berkeley)
- David Chu ('06, CS, UC Berkeley) now at MSRA
- Simon Han ('06, CS, UCLA), now at Google
- Borje Karlsson ('07, CS, PUC-Rio, Brazil) now at Nokia Inst. of Technology
- Wenbo He ('07, CS, UIUC) now Prof. at U. of Nebraska Lincoln
- Gong Chen ('07, Stat, UCLA)
- John Calandrino ('07, CS, UNC)
- Mike Liang ('08, CS, JHU) now at MSRA
- Lakshmi Ganesh ('08, CS, Cornell)
- Galen Reeves ('08, EECS, UC Berkeley)
- Sriram Govindan ('09, PennState)
- Lei Li ('09, CMU)
- Heitor Rumas ('10 Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
- Hong Lu ('10 Dartmouth)
- Aveek Purohit ('10 CMU)
- Negin Salajegheh ('11 UMass)
- Yin Chen ('11 JHU)
- Moo-Ryong Ra ('11 USC)
