Xin Liu (computer scientist)

Xin Liu is a Chinese-American computer scientist whose research involves computer networks and the applications of machine learning to complex systems. She is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis.^[1]

Liu earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in 1994, and continued at XJTU for a master's degree in electrical engineering, advised jointly by Shihua Zhu and Xixing Zhu, in 1997. Her master's research concerned autofocus.^[2] She completed a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University in 2002, with the dissertation Opportunistic Scheduling in Wireless Communication Networks, jointly supervised by Ness Shroff and Edwin K. P. Chong.^[2][3]

After postdoctoral research with Rayadurgam Srikant at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), she became an assistant professor at UIUC in 2002. She took her present position at the University of California, Davis in 2003.^[2]

Liu was named an IEEE Fellow in 2019, "for contributions to the design of cross-layer resource allocation algorithms for cellular and cognitive radio networks".^[4]

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