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SENIOR RESEARCHER
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About Me:
I am a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, managing the Networked Embedded Computing Group. Before joining MSR in May 2004, I was a researcher at Palo Alto Research Center (formerly Xerox PARC). 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.
My research interests root in understanding and managing the physical properties of computing. Examples include timing, energy, and the awareness of and impact on the physical world. My work is generally in modeling, simulation, programming models, protocol designs, resource management & control, and novel applications. My recent projects range from large-scale networked embedded systems, such as sensor networks, to large-scale networked computing infrastructures, such as data centers.
I am an associate editor of the IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, a TPC co-chair for SenSys 2009, and a co-chair for 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.
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. I also hold an adjunct professorship (Foreign PhD Advisor) at Harbin Institute of Technology, China.
Here is my (slightly outdated) brief CV.
Research Projects:
- 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~
- TPC Co-chair, SenSys 2009, Berkeley, CA, Nov. 4~7, 2009
- Workshop co-chair, FeBID 2009, San Francisco, CA, April 16, 2009
- Finance chair, Sensys 2008, IPSN 2009
- TPC co-Chair, IPSN 2008/SPOTS track
- Demo co-chair, Sensys 2006, SECON 2007
- Workshop co-chair, Basenets 2006
- Workshop co-chair, ACM Multimedia Workshop 2006
- Area Editor, SIMULATION, Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 2004~2007
- Chieh-Jan 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
- Aman Kansal, Jie Liu, Abhishek Singh, Ripal Nathuji, and Tarek Abdelzaher, Semantic-less Coordination of Power Management and Application Performance, in Hotpower 2009 (co-located with SOSP 2009), USENIX, 10 October 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
- David Chu, Feng Zhao, Jie Liu, and Michel Goraczko, Que: A Sensor Network Rapid Prototyping Tool with Application Experiences from a Data Center Deployment, in European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN '08), January 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
- Andre Santanche, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Bodhi Priyantha, and Feng Zhao, SenseWeb: Browsing the Physical World in Real Time (Demo Abstract), in IPSN'06: ACM/IEEE Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 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.
Networked Embedded Computing Group
Publications
Teaching
- Winter 2008, Univ. of Washington CSE590K: Analysis and Control of Computing Systems Using Linear Discrete-Time System Theory
News Coverage
- MIT Technology Review: Saving Energy in Data Centers
- Popular science (Posci.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 at UVA
- Prabal Dutta ('04, CS, UC Berkeley)
- Zoe Abrams ('05, CS, Stanford), now at Google
- Ryan Newton ('05, CSAIL, MIT)
- Andrea Santanche ('06, CS, Univ. of San Paulo, UNICAMP, Brazil)
- Slobodan Matic ('06, EECS, UC Berkeley)
- David Chu ('06, CS, UC Berkeley)
- Simon Han ('06, CS, UCLA), now at Google
- Borje Karlsson ('07, CS, PUC-Rio, Brazil)
- Wenbo He ('07, CS, UIUC) now at UNM
- Gong Chen ('07, Stat, UCLA)
- John Calandrino ('07, CS, UNC)
- Mike Liang ('08, CS, JHU)
- Lakshmi Ganesh ('08, CS, Cornell)
- Galen Reeves ('08, EECS, UC Berkeley)
- Sriram Govindan ('09, PennState)
- Lei Li ('09, CMU)
