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        Email:  yongliu@poly.edu 

Ph.D, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst  05/2002
M.S., Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) 07/1997  

• Associate Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering Department,  at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY (from 09/2011), faculty member of Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications, and NYU Wireless Center
• Assistant Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY (03/2005-08/2011)
• Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computer Networks Research Group, directed by Professor Jim Kurose and Don Towsley, Computer Science Department, UMass, Amherst (02/2002-03/2005)
• Research Assistant in Complex Systems Modeling and Control Lab, directed by Professor Weibo Gong, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMass, Amherst (06/1998-01/2002)
  
• Curricular Vitae: pdf version

• Best Paper Award, ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2012
  
• Career Award, National Science Foundation, 2010
• Best Paper Award, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2009
• Best Paper Award, Multimedia Communications Technical Committee of IEEE Communications Society, 2008
• Best Paper Award, the First Workshop on Networks for Grid Applications (GridNets), 2004
• Presidential Graduate Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1997
• Guo Moruo Scholarship, the highest scholarship of University of Science & Technology of China, 1993

• EL736 - Communications Networks II: Design and Algorithms,  
• EL537 - Internet Architecture and Protocols,  
  
• EE136 - Communication Networks,  
  
• EL536 - Principles of Communication Networks,  
• EL933 - Network Measurement and Traffic Engineering,
  

• Design, Analysis and Simulation of Communication Networks
  
  
• Modeling, Control and Optimization of Complex Systems

• P2P Streaming Systems: measurement, analysis and design, collaborating with Professor Shiv Panwar, Keith Ross and Yao Wang, with generous support from National Science Foundation under contracts CNS-0953682 and CNS-0916734, and the following industrial sponsors:  
• Huawei, IP Network Research Center, Nanjing, China,
  
• Thomson Research Center, Princeton, NJ, USA, 
• Verizon Laboratories, Waltham, MA, USA.
  
  
• Economic Incentives for P2P: theory and design, collaborating with Professor Keith Ross, with generous support from National Science Foundation under contract CNS-1018032;
  
  
• Recommender System in Online Social Networks;
  
  
• Overlay Routing: optimal TCP relay, opportunistic wireless multicast, with generous support from the following industrial sponsors:
•  Media Technologies Research, Huawei Tech, NJ, USA
•  InterDigital, Long Island, NY, USA.
  
  
• Network X-ities: -- Foundations and Applications, (or "robust" network design in short), funded by National Science Foundation under contract CNS-0519998, co-PI, collaborating with Professor Jim Kurose and Don Towsley from UMass, and Professor Mung Chiang and Jennifer Rexford from Princeton.
  

• "Enabling P2P One-view Multi-party Video Conferencing", 
  Yongxiang Zhao, Yong Liu, Changjia Chen, JianYin Zhang,
  accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, available as [Technical Report];
  
  
• "Towards Agile and Smooth Video Adaptation in Dynamic HTTP Streaming",
  Guibin Tian and Yong Liu,
  in the Proceedings of ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2012), December, 2012 [pdf];
  
  
• "Video Telephony for End-consumers: Measurement Study of Google+, iChat, and Skype",
  Yang Xu, Chenguang Yu, Jingjiang Li, and Yong Liu,
  in the Proceedings of Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2012), Full Paper, November, 2012, the sole winner of Best Paper Award of IMC 2012, available as [Technical Report];
  
  
• "Peer-Assisted Distribution of User Generated Content",
  Zhengye Liu, Yuan Ding, Yong Liu, and Keith Ross,
  in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2012), September, 2012 [pdf];
  
  
• "On Top-k Recommendation using Social Networks",
  Xiwang Yang, Harald Steck, Yang Guo, and Yong Liu,
  in the Proceedings of 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012), Long Paper, September, 2012 [pdf];


• “Circle-based Recommendation in Online Social Networks ”,
  Xiwang Yang, Harald Steck and Yong Liu, 
  in the Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2012), Long Paper, August, 2012 [pdf];
  
  
• “Profiling Skype Video Calls: Rate Control and Video Quality”,
  Xinggong Zhang, Yang Xu, Hao Hu, Yong Liu, Zongming Guo, and Yao Wang, 
  in the Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer and Communications (INFOCOM 2012), March, 2012 [pdf];
  

• “China's Internet: Topology Mapping and Geolo- cating”,
  Ye Tian, Ratan Dey, Yong Liu, and Keith W. Ross, 
  accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, short version in the Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer and Communications (INFOCOM) Mini-Conference, March, 2012,  available as [Technical Report];
  


• "Bayesian-inference Based Recommendation in Online Social Networks", 
  Xiwang Yang, Yang Guo, and Yong Liu,
  in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Volume 24, Issue 4, April, 2013; short version in the Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer and Communications (INFOCOM) Mini-Conference, April, 2011, available as [Technical Report];

• "Optimal Bandwidth Sharing in Multi-Swarm Multi-Party P2P Video Conferencing Systems", 
  Chao Liang, Miao Zhao, and Yong Liu,
  in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 19, Number 6, December 2011, available as [Technical Report];
  
  
• "Peer-to-Peer Streaming of Layered Video: Efficiency, Fairness and Incentive",
  Hao Hu, Yang Guo and Yong Liu, 
  in  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies, Volume 21, Number 8, August 2011, conference version appeared in the Proceedings of NOSSDAV, 2010 [pdf], full versioin availabe as [Technical Report]
  


• ``Scalable Video Multicast in Hybrid 3G/Ad-hoc Networks",
  Sha Hua, Yang Guo, Yong Liu, Hang Liu, and Shivendra Panwar,
  in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia , Volume 13, Number 2, April, 2011,  available as [Technical Report];
  
  
• "Delay Bounds of Chunk-based Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming",
  Yong Liu,
  in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 18, Number 4, August 2010, conference version appeared in the Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, September, 2007, [pdf], full versioin availabe as [Technical Report]
  


• "P2P Trading in Social Networks: The Value of Staying Connected",
  Zhengye Liu, Hao Hu, Yong Liu,  Keith Ross, Yao Wang, and Markus Mobius,
  in the Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer and Communications (INFOCOM) 2010 [pdf]. 


• "Modeling and Analysis of Multi-Channel P2P Live Video Systems",
  Di Wu, Yong Liu and Keith Ross,
  in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 18, Number 4, August 2010, conference version appeared in the Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer and Communications (INFOCOM) 2009,  the sole winner of the Best Paper Award of INFOCOM 2009 (selected from 282 accepted papers out of 1,435 submissions), available as Technical Report. 
   
• "iPASS: Incentivized Peer-assisted System for Asynchronous Streaming"
  Chao Liang, Zhenghua Fu, Yong Liu and Chai Wah Wu
  in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Volume 21, Number 9, September, 2010, conference version appeared in the Proceedings of INFOCOM Mini-Conference, 2009,  full versioin availabe as [Technical Report].
    
• "Investigating the Scheduling Sensitivity of P2P Video Streaming: an experimental study",
  Chao Liang, Yang Guo and Yong Liu,
  in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Volume 11, Number 3, April 2009 [pdf],.
  
  
• "Is Random Scheduling Sufficient in P2P Video Streaming?",
  Chao Liang, Yang Guo and Yong Liu,
  in the Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008), June, 2008 [pdf].
  
  
• "Inferring Network-Wide Quality in P2P Live Streaming Systems",
  Xiaojun Hei, Yong Liu and Keith Ross,
  in IEEE JSAC special issue on advances in P2P streaming, Volume 25, Number 9. December 2007, available as Technical Report, awarded the Best Paper in Multimedia Communications of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) in 2008 (selected from papers published in IEEE ComSoc sponsored journals and conferences in 2006 & 2007).
  
  
• "A Measurement Study of a Large-Scale P2P IPTV System",
  Xiaojun Hei, Chao Liang, Jian Liang, Yong Liu and Keith Ross,
  in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Volume 9, Number 8, December, 2007, available as Technical Report.
  

• "Stochastic Fluid Theory for P2P Streaming Systems",
  Rakesh Kumar, Yong Liu and Keith Ross,
  in the Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer and Communications (INFOCOM) 2007, available as Technical Report.
  

Patents Granted

Professional Service

• Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking;
  
  
• Editor, Elsevier Computer Networks Journal;
  
  
• Tutorials Chair, ACM Sigmetrics 2010;
  
  
• Publication/Web Chair for 2007 IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR);
  
  
• TPC Member for
  
• ACM Multimedia 2009,  2010, 2013, 
• NOSSDAV 2009,2010, 2012, 2013
• IEEE Infocom 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012,2013
• ACM Sigcomm CoNEXT 2008, 
• ACM Sigmetrics 2008, 2011,
  
• IEEE ICDCS 2008, 2010, 2011,
  
• IPTPS 2009
• ACM Sigcomm 2007 P2P-TV Workshop,
  
• ACM Sigmetrics 2007 Student  Workshop,
  
• IFIP Performance 2007, 
• Tridentcom 2007, 2009,
  
• ICCCN 2006, 2007, 2008;
  
  
• Referee for submissions to the following professional conferences and journals: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking; IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications; Computer Networks Journal; IEEE Transactions on Multimedia; IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control;  Automatica; Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems; ACM/Sigcomm, ACM/Sigmetrics, IEEE/Infocom, IEEE/Globecom; IEEE/ICC, IEEE/CDC.