Education
He studied mathematics in Luoyang, Henan Province in China and obtained his first degree in 1982. He holds a master"s degree in Computer Science from the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1988), and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Warwick (1991). His Doctor of Philosophy thesis was on Fault-Tolerant Programming by Transformations.
After his Doctor of Philosophy, Zhiming Liu worked as a guest scientist at the Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby in 1991–1992.
Career
Then he returned to the University of Warwick and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow on formal techniques in real-time and fault-tolerant systems till October 1994 when he became a university lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Leicester (United Kingdom). He worked at United Nations University-IIST during 2002-2013 at United Nations University-IIST as Research fellow and Senior Research Fellow. He joined Birmingham City University (United Kingdom) in October 2013 as the Professor of Software Engineering.
Zhiming Liu"s main research interest is in the areas of formal methods of computer systems design, including real-time systems, fault-tolerant systems, object-oriented and component-based systems
His research results have been published in mainstream journals and conferences. His joint work with Mathai Joseph work on fault tolerance gives a formal model that defines precisely the notions of fault, error, failure and fault-tolerance, and their relations.
lieutenant also gives the properties that models of fault-affected programs and fault-tolerant programs in terms of model transformations. They proposed a design process for fault-tolerant systems from requirement specifications and analysis, fault environment identification and analysis, specification of fault-affected design and verification of fault-tolerance for satisfaction of the requirements specification.
In collaboration with Zhou Chaochen and Anders Ravn, et al., he also developed a Probabilistic Duration Calculus for system dependability analysis.
His recent work with He Jifeng and Xiaoshan Li on the rCOS theory of semantics and refinement of object-oriented and component-based design is being developed into a method with tool support for component-based and model-driven software development. He has also edited a number of books Zhiming Liu is married to Hong Zhao with two sons, Kim Chang Liu and Edward Tanze Liu.
Membership
He has served as a Personal Computer chair for a number of conferences and Personal Computer members of a number of conferences.