Jiming Liu, PhD, IEEE Fellow

Chair Professor

Department of Computer Science

Hong Kong Baptist University

Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Phone: (852) 3411-7088 Fax: (852) 3411-7892

Email: jiming(a)comp[.]hkbu[.]edu[.]hk

Jiming Liu is the Chair Professor of Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), Hong Kong. Prof. Liu received Bachelor of Science from East China Normal University, Shanghai, Master of Arts from Concordia University, and Master of Engineering and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal. Before 1994, he had worked in the IT industry (e.g., Computer Research Institute of Montreal (CRIM), Virtual Prototypes Inc. (VPI), and Knowledge Engineering Technology Inc. (KENTEK) in Canada).

Prof. Liu’s present research interests include multi-agent autonomy-oriented computing (AOC) paradigm, self-organizing/decentralized systems, Web intelligence (WI), and real-world complex systems/complex networks related problems (e.g., health and health systems, extreme events, and energy/sustainability management). His previous research focused on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems (AAMAS), robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI). He has contributed to the scientific literature in those areas. His work on AOC and nature-inspired computing (NIC) was highlighted in Science, October 2006, in Editors' Choice, and the work on adaptive user interface was referenced in Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century outlined by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He has given Keynote Talks at ICNC’08-FSKD’08, AWIC’07, RSEISP’07, RSKT 2006, AMT’06, and AWIC'05, and Invited Plenary Talks at KES’05, MMAS 2004, ISMIS’03, and IJCAI’03, among others. Prof. Liu received the President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work at HKBU in 2007. He was named 2011 IEEE Fellow for contributions to web intelligence and multi-agent autonomy-oriented computing.

Prof. Liu has served professional communities in various capacities, e.g., Editor-in-Chief of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2005-2009), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B (2009-), and Computational Intelligence (2007-) etc., Editorial Board Member of several other journals, General (Co-)Chair or Program (Co-)Chair of international conferences (IHI’12, ISMIS’12, ICDM’06, WI/IAT’05, EEE’04, IDEAL’03, WI/IAT’01, and IAT’99 etc.), Chair of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII) (2010-), IEEE Computer Society Fellows Committee Member (2011), Co-Director of Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), Member of Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) Engineering Panel (2004-2010), and Member of Hong Kong Young Scientist Award Selection Panel (2002-).

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Recent Work on Complex Systems/Networks Related Problems in Health & Health Systems

· J. Liu, L. Tao, and B. Xiao, “Discovering the impact of preceding units’ characteristics on the wait time of cardiac surgery unit from statistic data,” PLoS ONE, 2011.

· J. Liu and S. Xia, “Toward effective vaccine deployment: A systematic study,” Journal of Medical Systems (DOI: 10.1007/s10916-011-9734-x). (© Copyright 2011 Springer)

Recent Work on AOC for Complex Networks

· C. Gao, J. Liu, and N. Zhong, “Network immunization with distributed autonomy-oriented entities (supplementary file),” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 22(7):1222-1229, 2010. (© Copyright 2010 IEEE)

· B. Yang, J. Liu, and D. Liu, “An autonomy-oriented computing approach to community mining in distributed and dynamic networks,” Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 20(2):123-157, 2010. (© Copyright 2010 Springer)

Challenges & Opportunities

Research

· J. Liu, “Autonomy-Oriented Computing: The nature and implications of a paradigm for self-organized computing,” Keynote Talk at the 4th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC’08), and the 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD’08), Oct. 18-20, 2008, Jinan, China. (© Copyright 2008 IEEE)

· J. Liu and K. C. Tsui, “Toward nature inspired computing,” Communications of the ACM, 49(10):59-64, Oct. 2006. (© Copyright 2006 ACM)

· J. Liu, “Where are we going and where will we be? DM/WI in 2010, 2020, or 2050,” Panel on Data Mining and Web Intelligence, EEE’05, HKBU.

Computing Discipline

· J. Liu, “Computing as an evolving discipline: 10 observations,” IEEE Computer, 40(5):112, 110-111, May 2007. (© Copyright 2007 IEEE)

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