Ling Liu

A Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ling Liu directed the research programs in Distributed Data Intensive Systems Lab (DiSL), examining performance, security, privacy, and data management issues in building large-scale distributed computing systems. She and the DiSL research group worked on various aspects of distributed data intensive systems, ranging from Big Data technology, Cloud Computing and cloud datacenters, decentralized and social network computing, mobile and location-based services, sensor network and event stream processing, to service oriented computing and architectures.

Liu published over 300 international journal and conference articles. Her research group produced a number of open-source software systems, among which the most popular ones include WebCQ, XWRAPElite, PeerCrawl, GTMobSIM, and SHAPEi. She was a co-recipient of the best paper award from a number of conferences and organizations, including ICDCS 2003, WWW 2004, the 2005 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award, IEEE Cloud 2012, and IEEE ICWS 2013.

She was an elected IEEE Fellow and a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society 2012 Technical Achievement Award, "For pioneering contributions to novel internet data management and decentralized trust management." Liu received the 2012 Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor award from Georgia Institute of Technology. She was an internationally recognized expert in the areas of Big Data systems and data analysis, Cloud Computing and cloud datacenters, Database Systems, Distributed Computing, Internet Computing Systems, and service oriented computing.

Liu served as co-Chair of the 38th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2012). In addition to serving as general Chair and PC Chair of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences in Data Engineering, Very Large Databases, and Distributed Computing fields, she served on the editorial boards of several international journals, including ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), ACM Transactions on Web (TWEB), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), International Journal of Very Large Databases (VLDB Journal), Distributed and Parallel Databases (Springer), and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC). She also served as Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (TSC). Her research was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), the U.S. Department of Energy, as well as industrial companies including IBM and Intel.