Yong
Liu
Professor
Fellow of IEEE
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Tandon School of Engineering
New York University
Office:
370 Jay Street, Room 954, Brooklyn, NY, 11201
Phone
: (646) 997-3959, FAX: (646) 997-3906
Email: yongliu@nyu.edu
Education
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
Positions
Curricular
Vitae:
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Honors
& Awards
- Outstanding Junior Alumni Award, College of Engineering, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, 2017
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017
- 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
Teaching
Research
Interests
- Design, Analysis and Simulation of Communication Networks
- Modeling, Control and Optimization of Complex Systems
Recent
Projects
- 360 Degree Video Streaming for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality,
collaborating with Professor Yao
Wang, with generous support from National Science Foundation under
contract CNS-1816500;
- Multimedia Networking over 5G;
- Recommender System in Online Social Networks;
- 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 industrial sponsors;
- Economic Incentives for P2P: theory and design, collaborating with
Professor Keith Ross,
with generous support from National Science Foundation under
contract CNS-1018032;
Publication:
[Google
Scholar
Citations]
Selected Recent Papers:
- "Multi-path Multi-tier 360-degree Video Streaming in 5G Networks",
Liyang Sun, Fanyi Duanmu, Yong Liu, Yao Wang, Hang Shi, Yinghua Ye, and
David Dai,
in the Proceedings of ACM Multimedia
Systems 2018 Conference (MMSys 2018), June 2018, available
as [pdf];
- "On Group Popularity Prediction in Event-Based Social Networks",
Guangyu Li, Yong Liu, and Bruno Ribeiro,
in the Proceedings of the
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, June 2018,
available as [Technical Report];
- "Multipath IP Routing on End Devices: Motivation, Design, and
Performance",
Liyang Sun, Guibin Tian, Guanyu Zhu, Yong Liu, Hang Shi, and David
Dai,
in the Proceedings of IFIP Networking
2018 Conference, May 2018, [pdf];
- "LiveJack: Integrating CDNs and Edge Clouds for Live Content
Broadcasting",
Bo Yan, Shu Shi, Yong Liu, Weizhe Yuan, Haoqin He, Rittwik Jana, Yang
Xu, and H.Jonathan Chao,
in the Proceedings of ACM Multimedia
(MM 2017), October 2017, [pdf];
- Chenguang Yu, Hao Ding, Houwei Cao, Yong Liu, and Can
Yang,
"Follow Me: Personalized IPTV Channel Switching Guide",
in the Proceedings of ACM Multimedia
Systems 2017 Conference (MMSys), June 2017, [pdf];
- "Real-time Bandwidth Prediction and Rate Adaptation for Video Calls
over Cellular Networks",
Eymen Kurdoglu, Yong Liu, and Yao Wang
in the Proceedings of ACM Multimedia
Systems 2016 Conference (MMSys 2016), [pdf];
- "DDoS Attack Detection under SDN Context",
Yang Xu and Yong Liu
in the Proceedings of IEEE Conference
on Computer and Communications (INFOCOM), April, 2016, [pdf];
- "Identifying SDN State Inconsistency in OpenStack",
Yang Xu, Yong Liu, Rahul Singh, and Shu Tao,
ACM Sigcomm Symposium on SDN Research
(SOSR15), June 2015, available as [Technical
Report];
- "Exploring Miner Evolution in Bitcoin Network",
Luqin Wang and Yong Liu
Passive and Active Measurement
Conference (PAM) 2015, available as [Technical
Report];
- "Can you SEE me now?", A Measurement Study of Mobile Video Calls,
Chenguang Yu, Yang Xu, Bo Liu, and Yong Liu,
in the Proceedings of IEEE Conference
on Computer and Communications (INFOCOM), April, 2014, [pdf];
- "Enabling P2P One-view Multi-party Video Conferencing",
Yongxiang Zhao, Yong Liu, Changjia Chen, JianYin Zhang,
in IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed Systems, Volume 25, Issue 1, January,
2014, available as [Technical Report];
- "Mechanism Design for Dynamic P2P Streaming",
Guibin Tian, Yang Xu, Yong Liu and Keith Ross,
in the Proceedings of 13th IEEE
International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2013),
September, 2013, Finalist
for Best Paper Award
[pdf];
- "Capacity Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Adaptive Streaming",
Yang Xu, Yong Liu and Keith Ross,
in the Proceedings of 13th IEEE
International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2013),
September, 2013, [pdf];
- "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.
Full
Publication
List
Patents Granted
- Yong Liu, Yang Xu, Chenguang Yu, "Determining User Perceived Delays in
Voice Conference Systems and Video Conferencing Systems", US Patent # US
9,628,525 B2, Issues on April 18, 2017
- Yang Guo, Hao Hu, and Yong Liu, "Method and apparatus for peer-to-peer
streaming of layered content", US 9027046 B2, issued on May 5th,
2015.
- Chao Liang, Yang Guo, and Yong Liu, "Hierarchically Clustered
P2P Streaming System", US Patent # 8,892,625 B2, Issues on November 18,
2014
- Stevan H. Leiden, Yong Liu, Shivendra Panwar and Ayaskant Rath,
"Peer-to-peer voice over internet protocol", US Patent # 8,315,521 B2,
Issued on November 20, 2012;
- Yong Liu, "Reducing or minimizing delays in peer-to-peer
communications such as peer-to-peer video streaming", US Patent # US
8,005,975 B2, Issued on August 23, 2011;
- Harald Steck, Xiwang Yang, Yong Liu,"Method and a server for
routing between devices of a computer based social network",
US20140047042 A1, published on February 13th, 2014
- Xiwang Yang, Yang Guo, and Yong Liu, "Method and system for
providing recommendations in a social network", US20130041862 A1, issued
on February 14th, 2013.
- Sha Hua, Yang Guo, Yong Liu, Hang Liu, and Shivendra S. Panwar,
"Method and Apparatus For Scalable Content Multicast Over Hybrid
Network", US20120005304 A1, published on January 5th, 2012;
- Chao Liang, Yang Guo, and Yong Liu, "Multi-Head Hierarchically
Clustered P2P Streaming System", US20110173265 A1, published on July
14th, 2011;
- Chao Liang, Yang Guo, and Yong Liu, "Achieving Maximum Streaming
Rate Using Decentralized Perfect Scheduling Algorithm", US 20110047215
A1, published on February 24, 2011
Professional Service
- Workshop Co-chair, HotMD – Hot Topics in Multimedia Delivery, 2011
- Tutorials Chair, ACM
Sigmetrics
2010
- Publication/Web Chair for 2007
IEEE
Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR);
- TPC Member for
- IEEE Infocom
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019
- IEEE
International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2015,
2016, 2017, 2018
- ACM Multimedia
2009, 2010, 2013,
2017, 2018,
- ACM
Multimedia Systems 2017, 2018
- NOSSDAV 2009,2010, 2012,
2013, 2014,2017
- 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.