Portrait of Jie Liu

Jie Liu

Principal Researcher and Research Manager

I am a Principal Researcher and a Research Manager at Microsoft Research-NExT, leading Project Vesta, MSR’s Venture on Embedded Sensing Technologies and Applications (previously known as the Sensing and Energy Research Group — SERG). My group conducts fundamental and systems research on sensing and energy-efficient computing.

My personal research interests root in understanding and managing the physical properties of computing. Examples include timing, location, energy, and the awareness of and impact on the physical world. I worked on actor-oriented modeling, simulation, & programming models, low power and networked sensing, system resource management & control, mobile context extraction & management, and novel mobile & cloud applications. My recent projects range from sensor networks, wearable devices, mobile computing, to data centers.

Before joining MSR in May 2004, I was a researcher at Palo Alto Research Center (formerly Xerox PARC). Since 2008, I also hold an adjunct professorship (Foreign PhD Advisor) at Harbin Institute of Technology, China. I got my Ph.D. degree from EECS, UC Berkeley in 2001; got my Master (1996) and Bachelor (1993) degrees from Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Project CLEO

Established: January 18, 2013

The goal of project CLEO is to develop devices and services to encourage and enable participatory sensing and citizen scientists. A core technology developed in the project is to make location sensing energy efficient, so devices can be small and light, sample more frequently, and of low cost. The approach is called Cloud-Offloaded GPS (or CO-GPS). News: Mobile Location Sensing Tutorial at ACM MobiSys 2013, June 25th, 2013, Taipei. Jie Liu gave a keynote address at…

LiveSynergy – Bridging the Gap between Virtual and Physical Worlds

Established: November 15, 2011

LiveSynergy is a novel magnetic-based wireless proximity detection platform, with accuracy and consistency better than existing solutions such as BLE, WiFi, ZigBee, and long-range RFID. Building on top of this platform, we provide cloud-based APIs that enable real-time and rich interactions between humans and their physical environment. LiveSynergy enables a range of indoor applications such as location-based targeted advertising and presence detection.   News Jan. 2012: Our LiveSynergy paper "Design and Evaluation of a Wireless Magnetic-based…

Joulemeter: Computational Energy Measurement and Optimization

Established: February 23, 2010

The public release of Joulemeter is deprecated. We apologize for any inconvenience.The Joulemeter project provides a modeling tool to measure the energy usage of virtual machines (VMs), servers, desktops, laptops, and even individual software applications running on a computer. The visibility provided by Joulemeter is being used to improve power provisioning costs for data centers, virtualized power budgeting, desktop energy optimizations, and mobile battery management. Note: Joulemeter is no longer available for public download. Similar…

2015

A Realistic Evaluation and Comparison of Indoor Location Technologies: Experiences and Lessons Learned
Filip Lemic, Jasper Buesch, Zhiping Jiang, Han Zou, Hao Jiang, Chi Zhang, Ashwin Ashok, Chenren Xu, Patrick Lazik, Niranjini Rajagopal, Anthony Rowe, Avik Ghose, Nasim Ahmed, Zhuoling Xiao, Hongkai Wen, Traian E. Abrudan, Andrew Markham, Thomas Schmid, Daniel Lee, Martin Klepal, Christian Beder, Maciej Nikodem, Szymon Szymczak, Pawel Hoffmann, Leo Selavo, Domenico Giustiniano, Vincent Lenders, Maurizio Rea, Andreas Marcaletti, Christos Laoudias, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Yu-Kuen Tsai, Arne Bestmann, Ronne Reimann, Liqun Li, Chunshui Zhao, Stephan Adler, Simon Schmitt, Vincenzo Dentamaro, Domenico Colucci, Pasquale Ambrosini, Andre Ferraz, Lucas Martins, Pedro Bello, Alan Alvino, Vladica Sark, Gerald Pirkl, Peter Hevesi, Xue Yang, Romit Roy Choudhury, Vlado Handziski, Souvik Sen, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Jie Liu, in The 14th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '15), ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, April 1, 2015, View abstract, Download PDF

2014

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2011

Pocket Cloudlets
Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Karin Strauss, Jie Liu, Doug Burger, in ASPLOS 2011 (International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ACM, March 1, 2011, View abstract, Download PDF

2010

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2005

Data mining, management and computational ecology

May 15, 2013

Speakers

Jie Liu, Cristian Bonacic, Andrea Vasquez, and Carlos Joly

Affiliation

Microsoft Research, Catholic University of Chile (PUC-Chile), Live Andes, IB-UNICAMP & BIOTA-FAPESP

I am an Associated Editor for ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks. From 2008 to 2011, I was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing and Simulation Journal. Recently, I have been the General Chair for CPS Week 2015, ACM SenSys 2011, and PerCom 2011, a TPC co-chair for IPSN 2014, PerCom 2012, SenSys 2009 and IPSN/SPOT 2008, and a founding co-chair for PhoneSense 2010 and a co-chair of FeBID 2009, 2013 and 2014. I served on various NSF review panels, on the TPC of conferences such as SenSys, IPSN, RTAS, RTSS, HSCC, ICDCS, DAC, and DATE, and as a reviewer for various journals.

Community Services

  • Associated Editor: ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks, 2012 ~
  • Associated Editor: IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, 2008~2011
  • Area Editor, SIMULATION, Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 2004~2007
  • Steering Committee Chair: SenSys 2013-2014
  • General Chair/Co-chair: CPS Week 2015, SenSys 2011, PerCom 2011
  • TPC Chair/Co-chair: IPSN2014, IEEE PerCom 2012, ICDCS 2011 Wireless and Mobile Computing Track, SenSys 2009, IPSN 2008/SPOTS track.
  • Workshop Chair/Co-Chair: WearSys 2015, Feedback Computing 2014, PhoneSense 2010, FeBID 2009, 2013, 2014, Basenets 2006, ACM Multimedia Workshop 2006.
  • Finance chair: Sensys 2008, IPSN 2009
  • Demo/Poster co-chair: Sensys 2006, SECON 2007
  • Technical Program Committee:
    • 2015: SenSys
    • 2014: SenSys
    • 2013: HSCC, WEED, SenSys
    • 2012: Feedback Computing, WEED, PhoneSense
    • 2011: IPSN, ICDCS
    • 2010: IPSN, RTSS, MobiCom posters, WEED
    • 2009: SenSys, ICDCS, DATE, FeBID, Pervasive demos, WEED
    • 2008: IPSN/SPOTS, ICDCS,
    • 2007: SenSys, RTSS, ChinaCom
    • 2006: IPSN, Basenets, ICDCS

Awards

  • RTSS’14 Best Paper Award: Abusayeed Saifullah, Sriram Sankar, Jie Liu, Chenyang Lu, Ranveer Chandra, Bodhi Priyantha, “CapNet: A Real-Time Wireless Management Network for Data Center Power Capping”
  • MobiSys’14 Best Paper Award: Shahriar Nirjon, Jie Liu, Gerald DeJean, Bodhi Priyantha, Yuzhe Jin, and Ted Hart, “COIN-GPS: Indoor Localization from Direct GPS Receiving”
  • SenSys’12 Best Paper Award: Jie Liu, Bodhi Priyantha, Ted Hart, Heitor Ramos, Antonio Loureiro, Qiang Wang, “Energy Efficient GPS Sensing with Cloud Offloading”
  • SenSys’11 Best Demo Award: Xiaofan Jiang, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Feng Zhao,
    Kaifei Chen, Jeff Hsu, Ben Zhang, and Jie Liu, “Creating Interactive Virtual Zones in Physical Space with Magnetic-Induction“
  • RTAS’10 Best Paper Award: Qing Cao, Dong Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Bodhi Priyantha, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, “Energy-optimal Batching Periods for Asynchronous Multistage Data Processing on Sensor Nodes: Foundations and an mPlatform Case Study”
  • Microsoft Gold Star Award, 2008
  • PARC Technology Advance Award, 2003
  • UC Berkeley Leon O. Chua Award for outstanding research, 2001
  • UC Berkeley Regents Fellowship, 1996
  • Tsinghua University Exceptional Student Award (清华大学优秀学生特等奖), 1996
  • Numerous student awards from Tsinghua University, including Siemens Fellowship, President Nanxiang Jiang Award, “Dec. 9th” Memorial Award, etc.  1988-1996

Upcoming Conf. Chairing

  • Cyber-Physical Systems Week 2015

Teaching

  • Winter 2008, Univ. of Washington CSE590K: Analysis and Control of Computing Systems Using Linear Discrete-Time System Theory

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