ECE FACULTY

K.J. Ray Liu

Title: Professor & Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and Research
Areas/Affiliations: ECE, ISR
E-mail: kjrliu@umd.edu
Phone: 301-405-6619
Office: 2232 Kim Bldg

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 is Professor and Director of Communications and Signal Processing Laboratories of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Institute for Systems Research of University of Maryland, College Park. His research contributions encompass broad aspects of wireless communications and networking; multimedia communications and signal processing; information forensics and security; bioinformatics and system biology; and signal processing algorithms and architectures, in which he has published over 350 refereed papers, books, and book chapters.

Dr. Liu is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including IEEE Signal Processing Society 2004 Distinguished Lecturer, the 1994 National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1993 Senior Award (Best Paper Award), IEEE 50th Vehicular Technology Conference Best Paper Award in 1999, 2005 EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing Best Paper Award, and EURASIP 2004 Meritorious Service Award. He received the 2005 Poole and Kent Company Senior Faculty Teaching Award from A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, as well as the George Corcoran Award in 1994 for outstanding contributions to electrical engineering education, and the Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award in 1996 in recognition of outstanding contributions in interdisciplinary research from Institute for Systems Research. He also received the 2004 Invention of the Year Award from University of Maryland on his work "Coding Techniques for Maximum Achievable Diversity in Space, Time and Frequency for Broadband Wireless Communications." Dr. Liu is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Dr. Liu is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, the architect and founding Editor-in-Chief of EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, and the prime architect and proposer of the new IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security. He has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, a Guest Editor of special issues on Multimedia Signal Processing of Proceedings of the IEEE, a Guest Editor of special issue on Signal Processing for Wireless Communications of IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, a Guest Editor of special issue on Multimedia Communications over Networks of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, a Guest Editor of special issue on Multimedia over IP of IEEE Trans. on Multimedia. He is now serving as the founding Series Editor of EURASIP Book Series on Signal Processing and Communications.

Dr. Liu is Vice President-Elect for Publications and on the Board of Governor of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He has served as the Chairman of Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee, Technical Program Chair of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, a panelist for various events of National Science Foundation, DARPA, and international conferences, and various capacities in organizing international conferences. He is a co-author of Design of Digital Video Encoder: A Complete Compressed Domain Approach, Marcel Dekker, 2001, and a co-editor of 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.

Spotlight on Research: Towards Maximum Achievable Diversity in Space, Time, and Frequency in Broadband Wireless Communications

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