Ling Liu

Head of the Distributed Data Intensive Systems Lab (DiSL) research group at Georgia Institute of Technology, Liu is known for producing a number of open-source software systems, including WebCQ, XWRAPElite, PeerCrawl, GTMobSIM, and SHAPEi. As a Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, she has directed research programs in DiSL, examining performance, security, privacy, and data management issues in building large-scale distributed computing systems. She and the DiSL research group have 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 has published over 300 international journal and conference articles. She has been 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.

An elected IEEE Fellow, Liu received the IEEE Computer Society 2012 Technical Achievement Award, "For pioneering contributions to novel internet data management and decentralized trust management." She also received the 2012 Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor award from Georgia Institute of Technology. Liu is internationally recognized as an 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 has 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 has 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 has also served as Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (TSC). Her research has been 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.