Ling Liu (born 1960) is a Chinese-American computer scientist whose research involves

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases sp ...

s, distributed systems for

big data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

, and privacy and trust issues in

peer-to-peer Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network. They are said to form a peer-to-peer n ...

networks and

cloud computing Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mul ...

. She is a professor in the

Georgia Institute of Technology School of Computer Science The School of Computer Science is an academic department, academic unit located within the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). It conducts both research a ...

Education and career

Liu completed a Ph.D. at Tilburg University in the Netherlands in 1993, with the dissertation ''A Formal Approach to Structure, Algebra, and Communication Behavior of Complex Objects'' supervised by Robert Meersman. After postdoctoral research at

Goethe University Frankfurt Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

in Germany, she worked in Canada as an assistant professor at the

University of Alberta The University of Alberta, also known as U of A or UAlberta, is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Rutherfor ...

from 1994 to 1998. She was an assistant and associate professor at the

Oregon Graduate Institute The Oregon Graduate Center was a unique, private, postgraduate-only research university in Washington County, Oregon, on the west side of Portland, from 1963 to 2001. The center was renamed the Oregon Graduate Institute in 1989. The Institute me ...

(now part of the

Oregon Health & Science University Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is a public research university focusing primarily on health sciences with a main campus, including two hospitals, in Portland, Oregon. The institution was founded in 1887 as the University of Oregon Medi ...

) from 1997 to 1999 before taking her present position at Georgia Tech in 1999. At Georgia Tech, her doctoral students included

Li Xiong Li Xiong (李雄) (274–334), courtesy name Zhongjuan (仲雋), formally Emperor Wu of Cheng (Han) (成(漢)武帝), was the first emperor of the Di-led Chinese Cheng Han dynasty and commonly regarded as its founder (although some historians ...

(2005).

Recognition

Liu was a 2012 recipient of the Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Computer Society, "for pioneering contributions to novel internet data management and decentralized trust management". She was named as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2015 class of fellows, "for her contributions to scalable Internet data management and decentralized trust management".

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