Jane Liu

Jane Win-Shih Liu is a Chinese-American computer scientist known for her work on real-time computing. She is a professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Shun Hing Honorary Chair Professor of Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University, a distinguished visiting fellow of the Academia Sinica, and the former editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Computers.

Education and career

Liu majored in electrical engineering at Cleveland State University,[1] and completed a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968. Her dissertation, Reliability of Quantum Mechanical Communication Systems, was supervised by Robert Spayde Kennedy.[2]

She was a member of the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1972 until her retirement in 2000.[1] During this time, she was editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Computers from 1996 to 1999.[3] She worked for Microsoft from 2000 to 2004, when she joined the Academia Sinica.[1]

Books

Liu is the author of the book Real-Time Systems (Prentice-Hall, 2000), and co-author with C. L. Liu of Linear Systems Analysis (McGraw-Hill, 1975).

Recognition

Liu was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 1995 "for contributions to real-time task scheduling methods for computing systems".[4] The IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems gave her their Technical Achievement Award in 2005. In 2008, the Taiwan Institute of Information and Computing Machinery gave her their Information Science Honorary Medal.[3]

Personal life

Liu was married to Dave C.-L. Liu (1934–2020),[5] with whom she founded and co-directed the Real Time and Embedded System Laboratory at the University of Illinois.[6]

References
  1. "Jane W.-S. Liu: 2011 Distinguished Academic Achievement Alumni Award", Alumni Awards Past Recipients, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Computer Science Department, retrieved 2021-02-25
  2. Jane Liu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Vita, Academia Sinica, retrieved 2021-02-25
  4. "Fellows from the IEEE Computer Society", IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2021-02-24
  5. Wen, Wujie (2020), "An interview with professor David C. L. Liu, legendary computer scientist and educator", IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 20 (4): 4–7, doi:10.1109/mcas.2020.3027198, S2CID 229231298
  6. "History and Accomplishments", Cyber Physical Systems Integration Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, retrieved 2021-02-25
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