Jiangchuan Liu Name Icon

Professor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Fellow of The Canadian Academy of Engineering
Fellow of IEEE
NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow

Office: TASC I 9005  |  Email: jcliu {at} sfu {dot} ca

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Background (Bio in IEEE Style) (Photo)

Jiangchuan (JC) Liu is a Full Professor (with University Professorship) in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of The Canadian Academy of Engineering, an NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow, and a Fellow of IEEE.

I received BEng (Magna cum laude) from Computer Science at Tsinghua University in 1999, and PhD from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2003 (recipient of Hong Kong Young Scientist Award for the PhD work). From 2003 to 2004, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. I was a Microsoft Research Fellow and worked at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in the summers of 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, and 2011. I was an EMC-Endowed Visiting Chair Professor at Tsinghua University and a Yue-Kong Pao Visiting Chair Professor at Zhejiang University, and am currently a Distinguished Guest Professor of Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (2022–). I also serve on the Advisory Committee of the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in networked intelligent systems that integrate multimodal sensing, media streaming, and computing. These include, but are not limited to (each with some sample publications in recent years) I am also deeply interested in applying these technologies in Mother Nature’s complex and challenging environments. My students and I regularly conduct field studies and have developed a series of real-world systems to identify, track, and conserve wildlife in remote and underwater ecosystems with little or no supporting infrastructure. Working closely with biologists and First Nation communities, we have contributed to the restoration and conservation of wild salmon along the Pacific Northwest coast, from Alaska and Yukon through British Columbia to Washington and Oregon (see SFU Research Impact of the Week, CBC News ).

Awards and Recognitions

Professional Services

Textbook

  • Fundamentals of Multimedia, 3rd Edition
    Z. Li, M. Drew, and J. Liu
    Springer Texts in Computer Science Series, 2021
    This 824-page textbook has been used in undergraduate and graduate multimedia courses in over 30 countries worldwide (with Chinese translated version)

Recent Surveys, Tutorials and Position Papers

PIEEE'2024
Cover Story
Digital Phenotyping and Feature Extraction on Smartphone Data for Depression Detection
M. Yang, E.C. Ngai, X. Hu, B. Hu, J. Liu, E. Gelenbe, and V.C. Leung

Recent Publications

List of Publications
Google Scholar Profile, Total citation: 30K+ H-index: 83

Teaching

Supervised Graduates and Postdocs in Academia