Jane Liu
Jane Win-Shih Liu is a Chinese-American computer scientist known for her work on real-time computing. She is a professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Shun Hing Honorary Chair Professor of Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University, a distinguished visiting fellow of the Academia Sinica, and the former editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Computers.
Education and career
Liu majored in electrical engineering at Cleveland State University, and completed a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968. Her dissertation, Reliability of Quantum Mechanical Communication Systems, was supervised by Robert Spayde Kennedy.She was a member of the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1972 until her retirement in 2000. During this time, she was editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Computers from 1996 to 1999. She worked for Microsoft from 2000 to 2004, when she joined the Academia Sinica.