K. J. Ray Liu

K. J. Ray Liu (Chinese: 劉國瑞; born 1961) is a Chinese-American scientist, educator, and entrepreneur. He was elected as 2022 IEEE President and CEO (2021 President-elect; 2023 Past President) in 2020.[1]

Professor K. J. Ray Liu

Early life

Liu grew up in Taichung, Taiwan, where he attended St. Viator Catholic Junior High School [2] and Taichung First Senior High School. He then went on to National Taiwan University, graduating in 1983, with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.[3] After serving two years in mandatory military services, Liu earned a master's degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1987,[4] before receiving Ph.D. degree at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1990.[5]

Career

Liu joined University of Maryland, College Park, in 1990,[6] where he is a Distinguished University Professor[7] and a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.[8] He is also Christine Kim Eminent Professor of Information Technology[9] at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of A. James Clark School of Engineering.[6]

Liu leads the Maryland Signals and Information Group[10] with research contributions that encompass broad aspects of signal processing and communications, including wireless communications; network science; multimedia signal processing; information forensics and security; bioinformatics; and signal processing algorithms and architectures. His recent focus is on the development of wireless AI for wireless sensing and indoor tracking using ambient radio signals.[6]

Liu was elected as 2021 IEEE President-Elect, and will serve as 2022 IEEE President and CEO.[11] He has served as the 2019 IEEE Vice President, Technical Activities,[12] Division IX Director of IEEE Board of Directors in 2016-17,[13] and the President of IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2012-13.[14] He was also the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in 2003-05.[15] Liu was a founder of Asia-Pacific Association of Signal and Information Processing (APSIPA).[16][6]

Liu is the founder and President of Origin Wireless[17] that pioneers wireless AI for wireless sensing and indoor positioning. His inventions won the prestigious 2017 CEATEC Grand Prix Award[18] and three CES Innovation Awards, including CES Best of Innovation in 2021.[19][20] He was founder of Odyssey Technologies in 1997 creating the world’s first digital surveillance system over Internet called Remote Eyes.[21][6]

Awards and honors

Liu is the recipient of two IEEE Technical Field Awards:[22] the 2021 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing[23] with the citation “For outstanding leadership in and pioneering contributions to signal processing for wireless sensing and communications”, and the 2016 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award[24] "for exemplary teaching and curriculum development, inspirational mentoring of graduate students, and broad educational impact in signal processing and communications".[6]

He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the IEEE Signal Processing Society 2014 Society Award[25] for “influential technical contributions and profound leadership impact" (the highest award bestowed by IEEE Signal Processing Society;)[26] IEEE Signal Processing Society 2009 Technical Achievement Award;[27] and over a dozen of best paper/invention awards.[28][6]

Recognized by Web of Science as a Highly Cited Researcher (2001-2014, 2016-17),[29] Liu is a fellow of the IEEE,[30] American Association for the Advancement of Science,[31] and National Academy of Inventors.[32] He is a member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society.[33] His research was featured as one of seven technologies that IEEE believes will have the world changing implications on the way humans interact with machines, the world and each other, in honor of IEEE's 125th Anniversary.[34][6]

He also received various research and teaching recognitions from the University of Maryland, including Poole and Kent Senior Faculty Teaching Award (2005), Outstanding Faculty Research Award (2008), and Outstanding Service Award (2012), all from A. James Clark School of Engineering; Invention of the Year Award (for three times) from University’s Office of Technology Commercialization, as well as the George Corcoran Award for outstanding contributions to electrical engineering education from Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and the Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award in recognition of outstanding contributions in interdisciplinary research from Institute for Systems Research.[6]

Publications

Liu has published over 800 refereed papers and 10 books, including the following:[35]

  • “Wireless AI: Wireless Sensing, Positioning, IoT, and Communications”, Cambridge University Press, 2019[36]
  • “Behavior Dynamics in Media-Sharing Social Networks”, Cambridge University Press, 2011[37]
  • “Cognitive Radio Networking and Security – A Game Theoretic View”, Cambridge University Press, 2010[38]
  • “Cooperative Communications and Networking”, Cambridge University Press, 2009[39]
  • “Resource Allocation for Wireless Networks: Basics, Techniques, and Applications”, Cambridge University Press, 2008[40]
  • “Ultra-Wideband Communication Systems: The Multiband OFDM Approach”, Wiley, 2007[41]
  • “Network-Aware Security for Group Communications”, Springer, 2007[42]
  • “Multimedia Fingerprinting Forensics for Traitor Tracing”, Hindawi, 2005[43]
  • “Design of Digital Video Coding Systems: A Complete Compressed Domain Approach”, Marcel Dekker, 2001[44]
  • “Handbook on Array Processing and Sensor Networks”, Ed., IEEE-Wiley, 2009[45]

Students

Over the past thirty years, he has trained over 68 Ph.D. and postdoctoral students,[46] of which ten are now IEEE fellows,[6] half of whom are being faculty members of major universities worldwide and many are successful entrepreneurs.

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  41. ""Ultra-Wideband Communication Systems: The Multiband OFDM Approach", Wiley, 2007". Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  42. ""Network-Aware Security for Group Communications", Springer, 2007". Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  43. ""Multimedia Fingerprinting Forensics for Traitor Tracing", Hindawi, 2005" (PDF). Retrieved 17 December 2020.
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  45. ""Handbook on Array Processing and Sensor Networks", Ed., IEEE-Wiley, 2009". Retrieved 17 December 2020.
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