Biography
Dr. Liu's research has been focusing on capturing, modeling and monitoring the software behavior at run-time using hardware-level information. At his leisure time, Dr. Liu enjoys reading, movies, hiking and gardening. He is also an avid tennis player.
Education Background
Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. - 2008 University of California - Irvine
Electrical Engineering M.S. - 2002 University of California - Riverside
Electrical Engineering B.E. - 2000 University of Science and Technology of China
Courses Taught
- EE264 - Introduction to Digital Design
- EE461/561 - Many-Core Processor Architecture and Programming Model
- EE462/567 - Software System Architecture
- EE466/566 - Computer Architecture
Research Interests
- Processor architecture: multi/many-core multi-threading architecture
- Embedded Systems
- Power/Energy-aware computing
- Interaction between operating system and micro-architecture
- Hardware acceleration techniques and reconfigurable computing
Awards
- Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Summer Faculty Fellow 2015 - 2016
- Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Visiting Faculty Research Fellow 2013
Grants
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Broadening Participation Research Initiation Grant in Engineering (BRIGE) 2011-2016
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Grant 2016-2019
Publications
- Charles McGuffey, Chen Liu and Stephanie Schuckers, 鈥淗ardware Accelerator Approach Towards Efficient Biometric Cryptosystems for Network Security鈥, CIT Journal of Computing and Information Technology, 2016
- Gildo Torres, Paul McCall, Chen Liu, Mercedes Cabrerizo, and Malek Adjouadi, 鈥淓EG Processing: A Many-Core Approach Utilizing the Intel Single-Chip Cloud Computer Platform鈥, International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES), 2016
- Lichen Weng and Chen Liu, 鈥淎 Resource Utilization Based Instruction Fetch Policy for SMT Processors鈥, Microprocessors and Microsystems (MICPRO), Vol. 39, No. 1, Pages 1-10, February 2015
- Chen Liu, Pollawat Thanarungroj, and Jean-Luc Gaudiot, 鈥淗ow Many Cores do We Need to Run a Parallel Workload: A Test Drive of the Intel SCC Platform?鈥 Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Vol. 74, No. 7, pp. 2582-2595, July 2014.
- Gildo Torres, Chen Liu, Jed Kao-Tung Chang, Fang Hua, and Stephanie Schuckers, 鈥淎n Auto-tuning Assisted Power-Aware Study of Iris Matching Algorithm on Intel's SCC鈥, The Journal of Signal Processing Systems (JSPS), May 2014.
- Gildo Torres and Chen Liu, 鈥淎daptive Virtual Machine Management in the Cloud: A Performance-Counter-Driven Approach鈥, International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE), Vol. 4, No. 2, Pages 28-43, April 2014
- Jie Tang, Chen Liu, Shaoshan Liu, and Jean-Luc Gaudiot, 鈥淧ractical models for energy-efficient prefetching in mobile embedded systems鈥, Microprocessors and Microsystems (MICPRO), Vol. 37, No. 8, Part D, pp. 1173鈥1182, 2013.
- Jie Tang, Shaoshan Liu, Chen Liu, Zhimin Gu, and Jean-Luc Gaudiot, 鈥淎cceleration of XML Parsing Through Prefetching鈥, IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol. 62, No. 8, pp.1616-1628, 2013.
- Jie Tang, Pollawat Thanarungroj, Chen Liu, Shaoshan Liu, Zhimin Gu, and Jean-Luc Gaudiot, 鈥淧inned OS/Services: A Case Study of XML Parsing on Intel SCC鈥, Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), Vol. 28, No.1, pp.3-13, 2013.
- Shaoshan Liu, Won W. Ro, Chen Liu, Alfredo C. Salas, Christophe C茅rin, Jian-Jun Han, and Jean-Luc Gaudiot, 鈥淚ntroducing the Extremely Heterogeneous Architecture鈥, Journal of Interconnection Networks (JOIN), Vol. 13, No. 03n04, 2012.
- Pasd Putthapipat, Jean Andrian, and Chen Liu, 鈥淪tudies on Inter-component Communication Latency based on Variation Number of Components and Packet size in SDR-SCA Waveform Application鈥, International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE), 2012
- Chen Liu, Omar Granados, Rolando Duarte, and Jean Andrian, 鈥淓nergy Efficient Architecture Using Hardware Acceleration for Software Defined Radio Components鈥, Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS), Vol. 8, No. 1, pp.133-144, 2012.
- Chen Liu, Roland Duarte, Omar Granados, Jie Tang, Shaoshan Liu and Jean Andrian, 鈥淐ritical Path Based Hardware Acceleration for Cryptosystems鈥, International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology (IJACT), Vol. 4, No.1, pp.438-452, 2012.
- Jie Tang, Shaoshan Liu, Zhimin Gu, Chen Liu and Jean-Luc Gaudiot, 鈥淧refetching in Embedded Mobile Systems Can Be Energy-Efficient鈥, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 8-11, 2011.
- Dongsoo Kang, Chen Liu, and Jean-Luc Gaudiot, 鈥淭he Impact of Speculative Execution on SMT Processors鈥, International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP), Vol. 36, No. 4, pp.361-385, 2008