Professor Liu

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Career

Born in Guangzhou, he spent his childhood in Macau. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Taiwan, Master"s degree and doctorate in United States. Liu received his Bachelor of Science degree (1956) at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, and his South.M. and Electrical Engineer degrees (1960), and his Science

Doctorate. degree (1962) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He was on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1962–1972) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1972–1998), where he was Associate Provost from 1995 to 1998. He then retired from UIUC and served as President and Professor of Computer Science at the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Hsinchu, Taiwan from February 1998 to February 2002.

He is currently the William Mong Honorary Chair Professor at National Tsing Hua University. He was a Visiting Professor at City University of Hong Kong, and at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, and Li K. T. Honorary Chair Professor at National Central University.

He is the author and co-author of seven books and monographs, and over 180 technical papers.

His research interests include computer-aided design of Very-large-scale integration circuits, real-time systems, computer-aided instruction, combinatorial optimization, and discrete mathematics. He is the recipient of the 1994 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Education Meda In 2004, the University of Macau awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Achievements

• 2014: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award 2011: Philosophy Kaufman Award, for technical and business contributions in Electronic design automation 2000: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Millennium Medal, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Circuits and Systems Society Golden Jubilee Medal 1999: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, Real Time Systems Technical Committee 1999 Technical Achievement Award (inaugural winner) for his contributions in the area of real time scheduling, 1999: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Circuits and Systems Society 1998 Technical Achievement Award for his contributions in the area of computer aided design of Very-large-scale integration circuits. 1998: Outstanding Talents Foundation Award 1994: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Education Meda 1992: The Taylor L. Booth Education Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society 1989: Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.

Membership

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]

He is a member of Academia Sinica, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.