Ph.D., Full Professor Prof. Fangming Liu National Youth Top Talent Support Program of National High-level Personnel of Special Support Program (The Thousands-of-Talents Scheme ) Youth Scientist of National 973 Basic Research Program on SDN-based Cloud Datacenter Networks School of Computer Science and Technology Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) No. 5 Eastern Building, No. 1037 Luoyu Road, Hongshan District, Wuhan, 430074, China MSRA StarTrack Visiting Young Faculty, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing TEL: 86-13349918311 (China) FAX: 86-027-87557354 E-mail: fmliu@hust.edu.cn, fangminghk@gmail.com Web: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/fmliu/ Education Sep. 2007-Jan. 2011 Aug. 2009- Feb. 2010 Sep. 2005-Jul. 2007 Sep. 2001-Jul. 2005 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, CGA: 11.00/12.00 (A), HKTIIT Post-Graduate Excellence Scholarships Supervised by Prof. Bo Li (IEEE Fellow) University of Toronto, Canada Visiting Scholar in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Supported by HKUST Overseas Research Award Supervised by Prof. Baochun Li (IEEE Fellow) Tsinghua University, Beijing Doctoral Program in Computer Science, GPA:92.38/100 Tsinghua University, Beijing B. Engr. in Computer Science, GPA: 87.07/100 Research Interests I m leading a young & cutting-edge research group: Cloud Datacenter & Green Computing/Communications with the following areas: Cloud Computing & Datacenter, Green Computing and Communications, Mobile Cloud Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Virtualization Technology Internet Content Distribution Systems, including Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Networking, CDN and Collaborative Caching, Peer-Assisted Online Hosting (1-click hosting), Live Streaming and Video-on-Demand (VoD) Real-world system implementation/measurement and theoretical optimization (e.g., game theory, queueing theory, and control theory, as well as cross-disciplinary computational economics, network science), in order to Bridge Theory and Practice Publications Journal Publications 1. Fangming Liu, Zhi Zhou, Hai Jin, Bo Li, Baochun Li, Hongbo Jiang, "On Arbitrating the Power-Performance Tradeoff in SaaS Clouds", accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2014. 2. Jian Guo, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), John Lui, Hai Jin, "Fair Network Bandwidth Allocation in IaaS Datacenters via a Cooperative Game Approach", accepted by and to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2015. 3. Fangming Liu, Peng Shu, John Lui, "AppATP: An Energy Conserving Adaptive Mobile-Cloud Transmission Protocol", accepted by and to appear in IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2015.
4. Fei Xu, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Hai Jin, "Heterogeneity and Interference-Aware Virtual Machine Provisioning for Predictable Performance in the Cloud", accepted by and to appear in IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2015. 5. Fei Xu, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Hai Jin, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, "Managing Performance Overhead of Virtual Machines in Cloud Computing: A Survey, State of Art and Future Directions", Proceedings of the IEEE (Impact Factor: 6.911, the most highly-cited general interest journal in electrical engineering and computer science), vol. 102, no. 1, Jan. 2014. 6. Fei Xu, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Linghui Liu, Hai Jin, Bo Li, Baochun Li, "iaware: Making Live Migration of Virtual Machines Interference-Aware in the Cloud", accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2014. 7. Xiaomeng Yi, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Jiangchuan Liu, Hai Jin, "Building a Network Highway for Big Data: Architecture and Challenges", IEEE Network Magazine, Special Issue on Networking for Big Data, 2014. (The latest comprehensive survey on Networking Perspectives for Big Data in the literature) 8. Wei Deng, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Hai Jin, Bo Li, Dan Li, "Harnessing Renewable Energy in Cloud Datacenters: Opportunities and Challenges", accepted by IEEE Network Magazine, 2013. (The newest survey on Green Datacenters with Renewable Energy) 9. Fangming Liu, Shijun Shen, Bo Li, Baochun Li, Hai Jin, "Cinematic-Quality VoD in a P2P Storage Cloud: Design, Implementation and Measurements", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Emerging Technologies in Communications, 2013. 10. Fangming Liu, Peng Shu, Hai Jin, Linjie Ding, Jie Yu, Di Niu, Bo Li, "Gearing Resource-Poor Mobile Devices with Powerful Clouds: Architecture, Challenges and Applications", IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Mobile Cloud Computing, June, 2013. (The newest survey on Mobile Cloud Computing) 11. Fangming Liu, Bo Li, Baochun Li, Hai Jin, "Peer-Assisted On-Demand Streaming: Characterizing Demands and Optimizing Supplies", IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 351-361, Feb. 2013. 12. Fangming Liu, Bo Li, Lili Zhong, Baochun Li, Hai Jin, Xiaofei Liao, "Flash Crowd in P2P Live Streaming Systems: Fundamental Characteristics and Design Implications", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 1227-1239, July 2012. 13. Hong Zhang, Hongbo Jiang, Bo Li, Fangming Liu, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, and Jiangchuan Liu, "A Framework for Truthful Online Auctions in Cloud Computing with Heterogeneous User Demands", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2015. 14. Jie Dai, Fangming Liu, Bo Li, Baochun Li, Jiangchuan Liu, "Collaborative Caching in Wireless Video Streaming Through Resource Auctions", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), special issue on Cooperative Networking Challenges and Applications, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 458-466, February 2012. 15. Fangming Liu, Ye Sun, Bo Li, Baochun Li, and Xinyan Zhang, FS2You: Peer-Assisted Semi-Persistent Online Hosting at a Large Scale, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 21, no. 10, pp. 1442-1457, October 2010. 16. Jie Dai, Fangming Liu, and Bo Li, The Disparity between P2P Overlays and ISP Underlays: Issues, Existing
Solutions, and Challenges, IEEE Network Magazine, Special Issue on Network Science, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 36-41, November 2010. 17. Wei Deng, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Hai Jin, and Dan Li, "Leveraging Renewable Energy in Cloud Computing Datacenters: State of the Art and Future Research," in Chinese Journal of Computers, vol. 36, no. 3, Mar. 2013. 18. Yueming Hu, Yueju Xue, Qing Li, Fangming Liu, Gabriel Y. Keung, and Bo Li, "The Sink Node Placement and Performance Implication in Mobile Sensor Networks," in ACM/Springer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Special Issue on New Advances in Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 230-240, April 2009. 19. Wei Deng, Fangming Liu, Hai Jin, Xiaofei Liao, Haikun Liu, "Reliability-aware Server Consolidation for Balancing Energy-Lifetime Tradeoff in Virtualized Cloud Datacenters", accepted by International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), 2013. 20. Fei Xu, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Peng Yin, Hai Jin, "Network-Aware Task Assignment for MapReduce Applications in Shared Clusters", accepted by Journal of Internet Technology, Vol.16 No.2, 2015. 21. Fangming Liu, Peng Shu, "etime: Energy-Efficient Mobile Cloud Computing for Rich-Media Applications", IEEE COMSOC MMTC E-Letter (IEEE Communications Society, Multimedia Communications Technical Committee), vol. 8, no. 1, January 2013. Conference Publications 22. Haowen Tang, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Jacky Shen, Yuchen Jin, and Chuanxiong Guo, "UniDrive: Synergize Multiple Consumer Cloud Storage Services", in Proc. of ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2015, (ONLY 23 accepted out of 120 submissions), December, Vancouver, Canada, 2015. 23. Guoming Tang, Weixiang Jiang, Zhifeng Xu, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), and Kui Wu, "Zero-Cost, Fine-Grained Power Monitoring of Datacenters Using Non-Intrusive Power Disaggregation", in Proc. of ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2015, (ONLY 23 accepted out of 120 submissions), December, Vancouver, Canada, 2015. 24. Tan Zhang, Xian Zhang, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Hongkun Leng, Qian Yu, and Guanfeng Liang, "etrain: Making Wasted Energy Useful by Utilizing Heartbeats for Mobile Data Transmissions", in Proc. of IEEE ICDCS, (Acceptance ratio: 12.8%, 70 accepted out of 543 submissions), June-July, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2015. 25. Zhi Zhou, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), and Zongpeng Li, "Pricing Bilateral Electricity Trade between Smart Grids and Hybrid Green Datacenters", in Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS, poster paper (Only 57 papers (including 25 poster papers) were accepted among 239 submissions), June, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2015. 26. Zhi Zhou, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Zongpeng Li, and Hai Jin, "When Smart Grid Meets Geodistributed Cloud: An Auction Approach to Datacenter Demand Response", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM (double-blind review with Acceptance ratio: 19%), April-May, Hong Kong, 2015. 27. Yipei Niu, Bin Luo, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Jiangchuan Liu, and Bo Li, "When Hybrid Cloud Meets Flash Crowd: Towards Cost-Effective Service Provisioning", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM (double-blind review with Acceptance ratio: 19%), April-May, Hong Kong, 2015.
28. Zhi Zhou, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Bo Li, Baochun Li, Hai Jin, Ruolan Zou, and Zhiyong Liu, "Fuel Cell Generation in Geo-Distributed Cloud Services: A Quantitative Study", in Proc. of IEEE ICDCS, (Acceptance ratio: 13%, only 66 accepted out of over 500+ submissions), June-July, Madrid, Spain, 2014. 29. Shuopeng Zhang, Di Niu, Yaochen Hu, and Fangming Liu, "Server Selection and Topology Control for Multi- Party Video Conferences", in Proc. of ACM NOSSDAV, March, Singapore, 2014. 30. Jian Guo, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Xiaomeng Huang, John C.S. Lui, Mi Hu, Qiao Gao, and Hai Jin, "On Efficient Bandwidth Allocation for Traffic Variability in Datacenters", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM (Acceptance ratio: 19%), April, Toronto, 2014. 31. Jian Guo, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Haowen Tang, Yingnan Lian, Hai Jin, John C.S. Lui, "Falloc: Fair Network Bandwidth Allocation in IaaS Datacenters Via a Bargaining Game Approach", in Proc. of IEEE ICNP (only 46 accepted out of 251 submissions worldwide), October, Goettingen, Germany, 2013. 32. Zhi Zhou, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Yong Xu, Ruolan Zou, Hong Xu, John C.S. Lui, Hai Jin, "Carbon-aware Load Balancing for Geo-distributed Cloud Services", in Proc. of IEEE MASCOTS (only 44 accepted out of 163 submissions worldwide), San Francisco, USA, August, 2013. 33. Wei Deng, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Hai Jin, Chuan Wu, Xue Liu, "MultiGreen: Cost-Minimizing Multi-source Datacenter Power Supply with Online Control", in Proc. of ACM e-energy (organized by ACM SIGCOMM Community), UC Berkeley, May 2013. 34. Zhi Zhou, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Hai Jin, Bo Li, Baochun Li, Hongbo Jiang, "On Arbitrating the Power-Performance Tradeoff in SaaS Clouds", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM (Acceptance ratio: 17%), April, Italy, 2013. 35. Jian Guo, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Dan Zeng, John C.S. Lui, Hai Jin, "A Cooperative Game Based Allocation for Sharing Data Center Networks", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM (Acceptance ratio: 17%), April, Italy, 2013. 36. Peng Shu, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Hai Jin, Min Chen, Feng Wen, Yupeng Qu, Bo Li, "etime: Energy-Efficient Transmission between Cloud and Mobile Devices", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM (Miniconference, Acceptance ratio: 25%), April, Italy, 2013. 37. Hong Zhang, Bo Li, Hongbo Jiang, Fangming Liu, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Jiangchuan Liu, "A Framework for Truthful Online Auctions in Cloud Computing with Heterogeneous User Demands", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM (Acceptance ratio: 17%), April, Italy, 2013. 38. Wei Deng, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Hai Jin, Chuan Wu, "SmartDPSS: Cost-Minimizing Multi-source Power Supply for Datacenters with Arbitrary Demand", in Proc. of IEEE ICDCS (Acceptance ratio: 13%, only 61 accepted out of 484 submissions), Philadelphia, USA, July, 2013. 39. Wei Deng, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Hai Jin, Xiaofei Liao, "Online Control of Datacenter Power Supply Under Uncertain Demand and Renewable Energy", in Proc. of IEEE ICC, Budapest, Hungary, Jun. 2013. 40. Wei Deng, Fangming Liu, Hai Jin, Xiaofei Liao, Haikun Liu, "Lifetime or Energy: Consolidating Servers with Reliability Control in Virtualized Cloud Datacenters", Best Paper Nominee (one of the 4 best papers among 90 papers), in Proc. of IEEE CloudCom, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2012.
41. Saumay Pushp, Chi Harold Liu, Fangming Liu, Junehwa Song, "Multi-Player Gaming in Public Transport Crowd: Opportunities and Challenges", in IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), March, Seoul, South Korea, 2014. 42. Fei Xu, Fangming Liu (Corresponding Author), Dekang Zhu, Hai Jin, "Boosting MapReduce with Network- Aware Task Assignment", in Proc. of ICST CLOUDCOMP, October, Wuhan, China, 2013. 43. Jie Dai, Bo Li, Fangming Liu, Baochun Li, Jiangchuan Liu, "Collaborative Caching for Video Streaming among Selfish Wireless Service Providers", Best Paper Award (one of the 14 best papers among 1070 papers), in Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM, Houston, Texas, USA, September 2011. 44. Hao Yin, Heungsun Chang, Fangming Liu, Tongyu Zhan, Ying Zhang, Bo Li, "A Complementary and Contrast View of the Chinese Internet Topology", Best Paper Award, in Proc. of 11th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC), Liverpool, UK, June 2012. 45. Fangming Liu, Shijun Shen, Bo Li, Baochun Li, Hao Yin, and Sanli Li, Novasky: Cinematic-Quality VoD in a P2P Storage Cloud, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM (Acceptance rate: 15.96%), April 2011. 46. Jie Dai, Bo Li, Fangming Liu, Baochun Li, and Hai Jin, On the Efficiency of Collaborative Caching in ISP-aware P2P Networks, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, (Acceptance rate: 15.96%), April 2011. 47. Fangming Liu, Ye Sun, Bo Li, Baochun Li, "Quota: Rationing Server Resources in Peer-Assisted Online Hosting Systems," in Proc. of IEEE ICNP (Acceptance rate: 18%), Princeton, New Jersey, October 13-16, 2009. 48. Fangming Liu, Bo Li, Lili Zhong, Baochun Li, and Di Niu, How P2P Streaming Systems Scale Over Time Under a Flash Crowd? in the 8th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), (Acceptance rate: 20%), Boston, USA, April 21, 2009. 49. Ye Sun, Fangming Liu, Bo Li, Baochun Li, and Xinyan Zhang, FS2You: Peer-Assisted Semi-Persistent Online Storage at a Large Scale, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM (Acceptance rate: 19%), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19-25, 2009. 50. Ye Sun, Fangming Liu, Bo Li, and Baochun Li, "Peer-Assisted Online Storage and Distribution: Modeling and Server Strategies," in the 19th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, June 3-5, 2009. 51. Fangming Liu, Bo Li, Lili Zhong, and Baochun Li, Understanding the Flash Crowd in P2P Live Video Streaming Systems, (invited paper) in the 17th international Packet Video Workshop (PV), Seattle, WA, USA, May 11-13, 2009. 52. Fangming Liu, Ye Sun, Bo Li, and Xinyan Zhang, Understanding the Roles of Servers in Large-scale Peer- Assisted Online Storage Systems, in Proc. of IEEE ICC, Dresden, Germany, June 14-18, 2009. 53. Bo Li, Gabriel Y. Keung, Susu Xie, Fangming Liu, Ye Sun, and Hao Yin, An Empirical Study of Flash Crowd Dynamics in a P2P-based Live Video Streaming System, in Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM, New Orleans, USA, November 30 - December 04, 2008. 54. Yueming Hu, Qing Li, Fangming Liu, Gabriel Y. Keung, and Bo Li, A Preliminary Study of Information Collection in a Mobile Sensor Network, in Proc. of ICST QShine, Hong Kong SAR, July 28-31, 2008.
Ph.D. Dissertation 55. Fangming Liu, Large-Scale Peer-Assisted Online Hosting, Distribution and Video Streaming Systems: Design, Modeling and Practice, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Jan. 2011. Research Grants National 973 Basic Research Program, No.2014CB347800, Software-defined Networking (SDN)-based Cloud Datacenter Networks: Fundamental Theories and Key Technologies", which is one of the largest SDN projects in China, Co-Principal Investigator, 01/2014 12/2018. NSFC (The National Natural Science Foundation of China), Towards Predictable Cloud Computing Performance: Multi-Tenant Datacenter Network Sharing and Optimal Pricing, Principal Investigator, 01/2014 12/2017. NSFC (The National Natural Science Foundation of China), No.61103176, Multi-Dimensional Resource Consolidation and Energy-Efficiency Optimization of Large-Scale Virtualized Datacenters, Principal Investigator, 01/2012 12/2014. Research Fund of Young Scholars for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, China, No.20110142120079, Data-Intensive Computing: Efficient Data Management and Agile Computing Environment, Principal Investigator, 01/2012 12/2014. NSFC 重 点 国 际 ( 地 区 ) 合 作 研 究 项 目 (The National Natural Science Foundation of China), No.61520106005, Datacenter with High Efficiency -- Optimized Organization and Scheduling of Datacenters Resources, Co- Principal Investigator, 01/2016 12/2020. CHUTIAN Scholar Project of computer software and theory, Hubei Province, China. Academic New Star Scholar Fund (Top Award for Young Faculties among 28 Schools/Departments in HUST) in Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Principal Investigator, 2013. Innovation Research Fund of Huazhong University of Science & Technology, No. 2014YQ001 (supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities), Principal Investigator, 04/2014 12/2015. Innovation Research Fund of Huazhong University of Science & Technology, No. 2014TS006 (supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities), Principal Investigator, 01/2014 12/2015. Innovation Research Fund of Huazhong University of Science & Technology, No. 2011QN051, Principal Investigator, 06/2011 12/2012. Startup Scientific Research Fund of Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Principal Investigator, 02/2011 12/2014. Honors and Awards 2015-present National Youth Top Talent Support Program of National High-level Personnel of Special Support Program (The Thousands-of-Talents Scheme ), issued by Central Organization Department of CPC, China 2014-present Youth Scientist of National 973 Basic Research Program on SDN-based Cloud Datacenter Networks, China 2011 IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 Best Paper Awards, one of the 14 best papers rigorously selected from 1070 papers, in Proc. of IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 2012 IEEE IUCC 2012 Best PaperAwards 2012 IEEE CloudCom 2012 Best Paper Nominee Award 08/2013 ACM SIGCOMM 2013 Mainland Scholarship, support by the Hong Kong Pei Hua Education Foundation 2012-2013 Microsoft Research Asia StarTrack Visiting Young Faculty Fellowship, Beijing 2011-present CHUTIAN Scholarship of computer software and theory, Hubei Province, China 08/2013 Computing Science Visiting Fellowship, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
08/2013 Academic New Star Scholar Award in HUST (Top award for young faculties among 28 schools/departments in Huazhong University of Science & Technology) 06/2014 HUAZHONG Scholar in HUST 2012 Visiting Scholar of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 2012 1st Award Supervisor of Excellent Undergraduate Thesis in Hubei Province & Huazhong University of Science & Technology 2010 HKTIIT Post-Graduate Excellence Scholarships (for outstanding achievement in the research area of networking and multimedia technologies) 2009 HKUST Overseas Research Award (for visiting and collaboration at University of Toronto, Canada) 2008 HKUST Research Travel Grant 2007-2011 HKUST Postgraduate Studentship 2006 Guanghua Scholarship for Study, Tsinghua University 2004 Second Scholarship for Study, Tsinghua University 2002 Third Scholarship for Progress in Study, Tsinghua University Professional Activities 2015-present Editor-in-Chief of the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing, EAI (European Alliance for Innovation) 2012-2014 Guest Editors for high-impact international journals and magazines IEEE Network Magazine (Impact Factor: 2.853) Special Issue on Cloud and Data Center Performance Call for paper: http://www.comsoc.org/files/publications/magazines/ni/cfp/cfpnetwork0713.htm Guest Editorial: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=06574658 IEEE Systems Journal Special Issue on Green Pervasive and Ubiquitous Systems Call for paper: http://www.ieeesystemsjournal.org/ 2013-present Associate Editor for the journal of Frontiers of Computer Science (SCIE-indexed) 2015 Program Committee Co-Chair for The 11th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2015), to be held in Wuhan, China, Nov. 9-12 Website: http://collaboratecom.org/2015/show/home 2015 Program Committee Co-Chair for National Software Application Conference, to be held in Wuhan, China, November 2015 Website: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/nasac2015/ 2014 Program Committee Chair for the 9th International Conference on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing (GPC 2014), Wuhan, China, May 2014 Website: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/gpc2014/callpapers.htm 2014 Publicity Co-Chair for IEEE LANMAN 2014 (The 20th IEEE International Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks), Reno, NV, May 21-23, 2014 Website: http://www.ieee-lanman.org/ 2011-present Program Committee Member and Session Chair for International Conferences IEEE INFOCOM 2016 TPC IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2016 TPC ACM Multimedia 2014 (Multimedia Systems and Middleware Area) TPC IEEE INFOCOM 2015 TPC (and Session Chair of "Resource Provisioning in Cloud Computing")
IEEE ICNP 2014 TPC IEEE INFOCOM 2014 TPC (and Session Chair for "Cloud Computing 2" and "Cloud Computing 5") IEEE INFOCOM 2013 TPC (and Session Chair for "Resource allocation in cloud computing 2" and " MC - Data center networking 2") IEEE Globecom 2014 TPC IEEE IPCCC 2015 (34th IEEE -- International Performance Computing and Communications Conference) TPC IEEE CCNC 2016 (The 13th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference) TPC CBD 2015 (The Third International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data)TPC IEEE ICNC 2014 (International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications) IEEE Globecom 2013 - Next Generation Networking Symposium MCSC 2013 - The 1st International Workshop on Mobile Cloud and Social Computing, held in conjunction with ICDCS 2013 at Philadelphia, USA, July 08-11, 2013 IEEE Globecom 2012 - Next Generation Networking and Internet Symposium IEEE Globecom 2012 - Communications QoS, Reliability and Modelling Symposium The 7th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST-12) ACM CoNEXT 2011 (Shadow TPC) The International Conference on Selected Topics in Mobile & Wireless Networking (icost'2012) The 13th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid'2012) The International Conference on Selected Topics in Mobile & Wireless Networking (icost'2011) The 6th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST-11) The 8th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'12) Panelist: IEEE Computer Communications Workshop (CCW) panel on "mobile computing, Philadelphia, USA, Nov. 6-7, 2014. Established in 1986, IEEE CCW is the annual flagship workshop of the Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) of the IEEE Communications Society. CCW is a single-track event composed of panels and sessions focused on specific "hot topics" in networking and computer communications. The International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data (CCBD2014) panel on "The future trend of Big Data", which is a cross-area international forum on cloud computing and big data, to be held on November 12-14, 2014 at Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. CCBD2014 discusses the state-of-the-art, challenges, and trend of Big Data. Relevant topics include information retrieval/data mining, database system, data center, social network, software engineering and programming models,big Data application. 2012-2014 NSFC (The National Natural Science Foundation of China) technical reviewer 11/2013 External Examiner of PhD Defense Communittee in Faculty of Engineering, University of Hong Kong 06/2008-present Technical Reviewer for International Conferences and Journals IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) IEEE Transactions on Multimedia IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems IEEE Transactions on Computers IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management IEEE Transasctions on Emerging Topics in Computing IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine IEEE Network Magazine Oxford The Computer Journal IEEE Communications Letters
Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications Journal Elsevier Computer Networks Journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences IEEE ICNP 2013 Demo IEEE INFOCOM 2011-2014 IEEE Globecom 2010-2014 IEEE ICC 2013, 2009 06/2008-present 03/2009-present 08/2011-present 08/2011-present present 2012-present Member, Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Member, IEEE Communications Society (COMSOC) Member, ACM Community Member, China Computer Federation (CCF), CCF YOCSEF Internet Technical Committee, System Software Committee and Open Systems Committee of China Computer Federation Member of a series of IEEE Technical SubCommittees on cutting-edge areas, including IEEE Technical SubCommittee on Green Communications & Computing (TSCGCC), Special Interest Group on Green Data Center and Cloud Computing (SIGGDCCC) Working and Project Experience 2012-2013 MSRA StarTrack Visiting Young Faculty, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing Closely collaborating with MSRA senior researchers on datacenter networking, engineering and optimization 08/2013 Visiting Professor under Computing Science Visiting Fellowship, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada Collaborative research on Green Cloud and Datacenter Environmentally Sustainable Computing for Next Decade 06/2013 Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Collaborative research on Energy Management in Datacenters 03/2013 Visiting Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Collaborative research on Internet of Things 11/2011-10/2012 Consultant and Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Collaborative research on Datacenter power-performance tradeoff and optimization, as well as performance interference, cost and optimization of virtualization technologies (virtual machine) in the cloud 08/2009-02/2010 Overseas Research Collaboration, University of Toronto, Canada Advisors: Prof. Bo Li, HKUST, and Prof. Baochun Li, University of Toronto Actively collaborated with a startup company on measuring, analyzing and optimizing a real-world P2P online hosting system, FS2You (www.rayfile.com) (Google.cn entries over 4,000,000 in 2009, attracting millions of downloads worldwide), based on 350 GB worth of traces collected from over 3 million Internet users Took part in the design and optimization of server provisioning strategies to improve the system performance Modeled, analyzed and alleviated the flash crowd problem in peer-assisted video streaming systems 01/2007-06/2007 Research Assistant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Designed and implemented a novel GPU-accelerated loop subdivision surfaces with sharp features algorithm Took responsibility in the design and implementation of the algorithm, and co-authored one research paper 09/2005-04/2006 Software Engineer, Roxbeam Media Network Corporation, Beijing
Worked as a software engineer in the Software & Solution Group Took part in the design and implementation of a "P2P Video-on-Demand System" product using C++ 03/2005-07/2005 Final Year Project, Tsinghua University, Beijing Successfully developed a distributed remote rendering system over network using C++ and Microsoft DirectX9 Designed and built the system architecture from scratch, produced successful prototype and high-quality thesis Invited Talks 11/2013 Fangming Liu, From Online Cloud Services to Underlying Datacenter Optimization: A Top-Down Approach, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 08/2013 Fangming Liu, From Online Cloud Services to Underlying Datacenter Optimization: Bridging Theory and Practice, Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada 03/2013 Fangming Liu, From Online Cloud Services to Underlying Datacenter Optimization: A Top-Down Approach, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 08/2013 Fangming Liu, From Online Cloud Services to Underlying Datacenter Optimization: A Top-Down Approach, University of Alberta (U of A), Edmonton, Canada 08/2013 Fangming Liu, Software-Defined Datacenter Networks: Opportunities, Challenges and Practice, CCF YOCSEF Workshop on "Big Data and SDN" @ Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), Guangzhou, August 17, 2013. 11/2013 Fangming Liu, From Online Cloud Services to Underlying Datacenter Optimization: Bridging Theory and Practice, Chongqing University, China 10/2013 Fangming Liu, From Online Cloud Services to Underlying Datacenter Optimization: A Top-Down Approach, Dalian University of Technology, China 05/2013 Fangming Liu, From Online Cloud Services to Underlying Datacenter Optimization: Bridging Theory and Practice, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing (Official report: http://www.bit.edu.cn/xxgk/xysz/rjxy/87684.htm) 11/2012 Fangming Liu, Cinematic-Quality VoD in a P2P Storage Cloud, CCF YOCSEF Workshop on "Multimedia Streaming and Cloud Computing" @ Fudan University, Shanghai, November 23, 2012. 06/2012 Fangming Liu, From Online Cloud Services to Underlying Datacenter Optimization: Bridging Theory and Practice, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing 11/2012 Fangming Liu, From Online Cloud Services to Underlying Datacenter Optimization: NSFK Key Program Report, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, November 24-25, 2012. 01/2011 Fangming Liu, Cloud Storage and Distribution in the Internet, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, hosted by Prof. Zhiyong Liu 04/2011 Fangming Liu, Advice & Inspiration for Students in Computer Science (10 Years of My Academic Roadmap: 2001~2011), Advanced Class in the School of Computer Science & Technology, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Teaching Experiences Introduction to Internet of Things, Fall 2015, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Fundamentals of Cloud Computing, Fall 2015, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Introduction to Internet of Things, Spring 2014, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Fundamentals of Cloud Computing, Fall 2013, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Introduction to Internet of Things, Spring 2013, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Fundamentals of Cloud Computing, Spring 2013, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Introduction to Internet of Things, Spring 2012, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Computer Communications & Networking, Spring 2012, Huazhong University of Science & Technology 1st Award Supervisor of Excellent Undergraduate Thesis in Hubei Province & Huazhong University of Science & Technology, 2012 Supervisor of Excellent-rank Undergraduate Students, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Introduction to Internet of Things, Fall 2011, Huazhong University of Science & Technology Computer Networks Management Technology, Fall 2011, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Final Year Projects of a number of undergraduate students since 2011-2014, Huazhong University of Science & Technology (6 of these students have obtained overseas study offers across North America (e.g., USC, UCLA, U of T, etc.) under my recommendation, while 1 student has obtained Google Excellent Scholarship) COMP252: Operating System, Fall 2008, Teaching Assistant, CSE dept, HKUST COMP271: Data Structures and Algorithms, Spring 2008, Teaching Assistant, CSE dept, HKUST COMP252: Operating System, Fall 2007, Teaching Assistant, CSE dept, HKUST Operating System, Fall 2006, Teaching Assistant of Yao Class, Computer Science & Technology dept, Tsinghua University Skills and Qualifications Programming Languages: C/C++, C#, Matlab Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OSX Tools: LaTeX, Microsoft Visual Studio/Office/Visio, Origin Self-Evaluation A person with high intelligence, passion, responsibility and eagerness to succeed! References Professor Bo Li (IEEE Fellow), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong TEL: 852-2358 6976 Fax: 852-2358 1477 Email: bli@cse.ust.hk Professor Baochun Li (IEEE Fellow), Bell University Laboratories Endowed Chair in Computer Engineering, Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King s College Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G4 TEL: +1 (416) 9467338 Fax: +1 (416) 9784425 Email: bli@eecg.toronto.edu