Yunhao Liu


Yunhao Liu is a Chinese computer scientist. He is the Dean of Global Innovation Exchange at Tsinghua University.
Liu was named Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2015 for contributions to sensor networks and Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for contributions to wireless sensor networks and systems.
He is the editor-in-chief of and is the Honorary Chair of the ACM China Council.

Biography

Yunhao Liu received his B.S. degree from at Tsinghua University in 1995, an M.A. degree from at Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1997, and an M.S. and Ph.D. degree from at Michigan State University in 2003 and 2004.
From 2004 to 2011, he was assistant professor, associate professor, and postgraduate director in the, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He was Professor in at Tsinghua University 2011 through 2013, and he served as Chang Jiang Professor and the Dean of, Tsinghua University, 2013 to 2017. From 2018, he joined MSU and now serves as MSU Foundation Professor, and from 2018 to 2019, he served as chairperson designee in the, Michigan State University.

Honors and awards

Yunhao received Hong Kong Best Innovation & Research Grand Award for building the world's earliest Coal Mine Surveillance with Wireless Sensor Networks in 2007. He received the First Class Ministry of Education Nature Science Award for Location and Localizability study in wireless networks in 2010.
In 2011, Liu was awarded the State Natural Science Award for his contribution to wireless localization theory and practice. In the same year, he also received one of the five Distinguished Young Scholar Awards in Computer Science by National Natural Science Foundation of China. In 2013, Liu was named the for his contribution to spreading the word and shared the value that ACM offers to China's vast computing community.
In 2014, the 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking awards the best paper award to Liu's group for their paper Tagoram: Real-Time Tracking of Mobile RFID Tags to High Precision Using COTS Devices. Yunhao and his students designed and developed Tagoram, and successfully deployed this system in Terminal One, Beijing Capital International Airport and Sanya Phoenix International Airport. The prototype ran over a year and consumed 110,000 RFID tags involving 53 destination airports, 93 airlines, and 1,094 flights. Based on the observation that the tag diversity is the key to the localization performance, they designed and implemented Differential Augmented Hologram localization scheme, which successfully eliminated the impact of tag diversity on the localization accuracy, and improved the localization performance to millimeter-level, which was 40 times better than the state-of-the-art. The Tagoram system also won the Gold Award in Soft China Forum 2013, which is the highest honor in Chinese Software industry. It was the first time that the conference awards its highest award to an Asian institution.
In 2015, Liu was named Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions to sensor networks, and Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for contributions to wireless sensor networks and systems.
In 2016, Liu was awarded the IOT Young Achievement Award for his contribution to the Internet of Things by .
In 2017, Liu was named CSE Distinguished Alumni by Michigan State University.
In 2018, Liu was named MSU Foundation Professor by Michigan State University.
In 2021, Liu was awarded the Best Student Paper Award of SIGCOMM 2021, and the Best Paper of Sensys 2021.

Notable publications

Books:
Selected journal articles:
  • Lionel, M. N., Liu, Y., Lau, Y. C., & Patil, A. P.. . Wireless networks, 10, 701-710.
  • Yang, Z., Zhou, Z., & Liu, Y.. . ACM Computing Surveys, 46, 25.
  • Wu, C., Yang, Z., Liu, Y., & Xi, W.. . IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 24, 839-848.
  • Li, M., & Liu, Y.. . ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks , 5, 10.
  • Li, M., & Liu, Y.. . IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , 18, 320-332.
  • Liu, Y., He, Y., Li, M., Wang, J., Liu, K., & Li, X.. . IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 24, 1983-1993.
  • Liu, Y., Liu, K., & Li, M.. . IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , 18, 1132-1144.
  • Yang, Z., & Liu, Y.. . IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 21, 631-640.
  • Liu, Y., Xiao, L., Liu, X., Ni, L. M., & Zhang, X.. . IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 16, 163-174.
  • Liu, Y., Zhao, Y., Chen, L., Pei, J., & Han, J.. . IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 23, 2138-2149.
  • Yang, Z., & Liu, Y.. . IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 11, 1249-1260.
  • Dong, D., Li, M., Liu, Y., Li, X. Y., & Liao, X.. . IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , 19, 1787-1796.
  • Liu, Y., Xiao, L., & Ni, L.. . IEEE Transactions on Parallel and distributed systems, 18, 1296-1306.
  • Liu, Y., Mao, X., He, Y., Liu, K., Gong, W., & Wang, J.. . IEEE Network, 27, 42-47.
  • Yin, Z., Wu, C., Yang, Z., & Liu, Y.. . IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 35, 1141-1153.
  • Qian, K., Wu, C., Yang, Z., Liu, Y., He, F., & Xing, T.. . ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems , 17, 52.
  • Zhou, Z., Shangguan, L., Zheng, X., Yang, L., & Liu, Y.. . IEEE/ACM transactions on networking, 25, 2405-2418.
  • Yang, L., Li, Y., Lin, Q., Jia, H., Li, X. Y., & Liu, Y.. . IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , 25, 3823-3835.
  • Ma, Q., Zhang, S., Zhu, T., Liu, K., Zhang, L., He, W., & Liu, Y.. . IEEE transactions on mobile computing, 16, 2588-2598.
  • Duan, C., Yang, L., Lin, Q., & Liu, Y.. . IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 17, 2438-2451.
Selected conference articles:
  • Yang, Q., Li, Z., Liu, Y., Long, H., Huang, Y., He, J.,... & Zhai, E. . In Proceedings of ACM MobiCom 2019.
  • Yan, Y., Li, Z., Chen, Q. A., Wilson, C., Xu, T., Zhai, E.,... & Liu, Y. . In Proceedings of ACM MobiSys 2019.
  • Xiao, A., Liu, Y., Li, Y., Qian, F., Li, Z., Bai, S.,... & Xin, X. . In Proceedings of ACM MobiSys 2019.
  • Dang, F., Li, Z., Liu, Y., Zhai, E., Chen, Q. A., Xu, T.,... & Yang, J. . In Proceedings of ACM MobiSys 2019.
  • Zheng, Y., Zhang, Y., Qian, K., Zhang, G., Liu, Y., Wu, C., & Yang, Z. . In Proceedings of ACM MobiSys 2019.
  • Zhang, K., Wu, C., Yang, C., Zhao, Y., Huang, K., Peng, C.,... & Yang, Z. . In Proceedings of ACM MobiCom 2018.
  • Qian, K., Wu, C., Zhang, Y., Zhang, G., Yang, Z., & Liu, Y. . In Proceedings of ACM MobiSys 2018.
  • Liu, C., Zhang, L., Liu, Z., Liu, K., Li, X., & Liu, Y. . In Proceedings of ACM MobiCom 2016.
  • Yang, L., Li, Y., Lin, Q., Li, X. Y., & Liu, Y. . In Proceedings of ACM MobiCom 2016.
  • Yang, L., Lin, Q., Li, X., Liu, T., & Liu, Y. . In Proceedings of ACM MobiCom 2015.
  • Zhang, L., Bo, C., Hou, J., Li, X. Y., Wang, Y., Liu, K., & Liu, Y. . In Proceedings of ACM MobiCom 2015.
  • Shangguan, L., Yang, Z., Liu, A. X., Zhou, Z., & Liu, Y. Relative Localization of RFID Tags using Spatial-Temporal Phase Profiling. In Proceedings of USENIX NSDI 2015.
  • Zhu, T., Ma, Q., Zhang, S., & Liu, Y. . In Proceedings of ACM CCS 2014.
  • Yang, L., Chen, Y., Li, X. Y., Xiao, C., Li, M., & Liu, Y. . In Proceedings of ACM MobiCom 2014.
  • Zhang, L., Li, X. Y., Huang, W., Liu, K., Zong, S., Jian, X.,... & Liu, Y. . In Proceedings of ACM MobiCom 2014.
  • Yang, Z., Wu, C., & Liu, Y. . In Proceedings of ACM MobiCom 2012.
  • Mo, L., He, Y., Liu, Y., Zhao, J., Tang, S. J., Li, X. Y., & Dai, G. . In Proceedings of ACM SenSys 2009.
  • Yang, Z., Liu, Y., & Li, X. Y. . In Proceedings of ''IEEE INFOCOM 2009.
  • Li, M., & Liu, Y. . In Proceedings ACM IPSN 2007.
  • Liao, X., Jin, H., Liu, Y., Ni, L. M., & Deng, D. . In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2006.
  • Liu, Y., Liu, X., Xiao, L., Ni, L. M., & Zhang, X. . In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2004.''

Professional services

Editor for:
Program committee member for:
  • IEEE INFOCOM 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
  • IEEE ICDCS 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018
  • ACM MobiCom 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020
Chair for:
  • IEEE INFOCOM 2020
  • ACM EWSN 2019
  • ACM TURC 2017-2019
  • Microsoft 21 Century Computing 2015
  • IEEE TrustCom 2014
  • IEEE RTAS 2012
  • IEEE MASS 2011
  • IEEE ICDCS 2010, 2012
  • WWW 2008