In the Netherlands at the University of Twente, he received his Mississippi in Decision Support Systems in 1989 at the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences ( International Trade Commission), and his Doctor of Philosophy in Information Management in 1993 for the doctoral thesis entitled "Semiotics applied to information systems development.".
Born in Jiangsu, China, Kecheng Liu received his Bachelor is computer science in 1982 at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. After graduation in 1993, Kecheng Liu became faculty member at the School of Computing of the Staffordshire University. In 2003 he moved to the Department of Computer Science of the University of Reading.
By 2005 he is appointed full Professor of Informatics and East-business, and Director of the Informatics Research Centre at the University of Reading.
He has been visiting professor starting at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Fudan University and Beijing Institute of Technology, and later also at the Southeast University, Beijing Jiaotong University, Dalian University of Technology, and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. In the early 2000s, Liu was elected Fellow of British Computer Society.
