Alex X. Liu#
| Membership Number: | 6121 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.cse.msu.edu/~alexliu/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6916-1326 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 02/2022 - present Chief Information Security Officer, President of Midea Software Engineering Institute, Midea Group
- 08/2019 - 01/2022 Chief Scientist, Ant Group
- 07/2016 - 07/2019 Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University
- 07/2012 - 06/2016 Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University
- 08/2006 - 06/2012 Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State Universit
Fields of Scholarship
- Dependable computing
- Networking algorithms
- Cloud computing
- Mobile computing
- Privacy computing
- Computer and network security
Honours and Awards
- 2021 IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Fellow
- 2019 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Fellow, for “contributions to firewall design and analysis”.
- 2019 ACM Distinguished Scientist, for “outstanding scientific contributions to computing”.
- 2019 Withrow Distinguished Scholar (Senior) Award, Michigan State University. (One winner per year)
- 2015 Google Faculty Research Award.
- 2011 Withrow Distinguished Scholar (Junior) Award, Michigan State University. (One winner per year)
- 2009 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award - National Science Foundation.
- 2004 William C. Carter Award, IEEE & IFIP, for "significant contribution to the field of dependable computing through his graduate dissertation research". (One winner per year)
