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, 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.
She was a member of the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1972 until her retirement in 2000. During this time, she was editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Computers from 1996 to 1999. She worked for Microsoft from 2000 to 2004, when she joined the Academia Sinica.
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". 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.
Personal life
Liu was married to Dave C.-L. Liu (1934–2020), with whom she founded and co-directed the Real Time and Embedded System Laboratory at the University of Illinois.
References
- ^ "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
- Jane Liu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Vita, Academia Sinica, retrieved 2021-02-25
- "Fellows from the IEEE Computer Society", IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2021-02-24
- 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
- "History and Accomplishments", Cyber Physical Systems Integration Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, retrieved 2021-02-25
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
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- Fellows of the IEEE
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women