Welcome
Hello and welcome to my homepage!
I joined UIC in 1999, after
four years with Stevens
Institute of Technology (1995-1999) and two years
with General Motors
Research & Development Center (1993-1995).
UIC is only a few blocks away from the beautiful
downtown of Chicago.
Again, I welcome you, visitor no.
Some links to my work environment:
Computational Intelligence
Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
University of Illinois at Chicago
Princeton Review of UIC
Official U.S. Central Time
Beijing Time
How to Write Papers and Give Presentations
ADP Depository
A Useful Tool for Software Testing
Author: Derong Liu Established: September 19, 1995
E-Mail: derong@uic.edu Last Update: July 12, 2008
Author: Derong Liu Established: September 19, 1995 E-Mail: derong@uic.edu Last Update: July 12, 2008
Derong Liu's pictures
My pictures
Pictures from Tony's Workshop
A day time view from my office
An evening vew from my office
The two tallest buildings at UIC
(my office is in the second tallest building on the left)
Pictures from Beijing
Pictures from Chicago
Pictures from Notre Dame
With Jay Leno
My cars
My daughter's pictures
Hi, my name is Emilie Liu. This picture was taken in October 2004.
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Disney World 2005
Disney World 2004
Disney World 2002
Disney World 2001
Disney World 2000
Disney World 1999
Disney World 1998
Pictures of my 10th year
Pictures of my 9th year
Pictures of my 8th year
Pictures of my 7th year
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My dog
Two
articles I wrote
10AM School, September 2007
Don’t Go To New Jersey For Winter
Break, March 2008
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Employment history
 | 2005-present, Director of Graduate Studies, ECE Dept., UIC |
| | 2006-present, Full Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| | 2002-2006, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| | 1999-2002, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago |
 | 1995-1999, Assistant Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology |
 | 1993-1995, Staff Fellow, General Motors Research and Development Center |
 | 1987-1990, Instructor, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences |
 | 1982-1984, Product Design Engineer, China North Industries Corporation |
Education background
Current research interests
Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning
Computational Neuroscience
Control and Management of Complex Systems
Intelligent Control
Neural Networks
Power Systems
Prior research accomplishments
Wireless
Communications and Wireless Networks
Network Traffic Modeling
Recurrent Neural Networks (Associative Memories)
Nonlinear
Dynamical Systems (Stability Analysis)
My students
Ying Cai, Ph.D., September 2005
Myron E. Hohil
(co-supervised), Ph.D., May 1998
Saqning Hu, Ph.D., Feb. 2006
Ting Huang, Ph.D., Dec. 2011
Ning Jin, Ph.D., Dec. 2011
John C. Kiss, Ph.D., May 1996
Sergio Ledesma, Ph.D., Dec. 2000
Zanjun Lu,
Ph.D., December 1999
Zhongyu Pang, Ph.D., Dec. 2007
Endre I. Sara, Ph.D., Dec. 1999
Xiaoxu Xiong, Ph.D., May 2006
Yi Zhang, Ph.D., May 2004
Research support
National
Science Foundation (Principal Investigator),
EAGER: Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Residential Energy
System
Control and Management,
2010-2011.
National
Science Foundation (Principal Investigator),
Finite
Horizon Discrete-Time Adaptive Dynamic Programming,
2006-2009.
National Science Foundation (Co-Principal
Investigator),
SENSORS:
Approximate Dynamic Programming for Dynamic
Scheduling and Control in Sensor Networks, 2005-2008.
National Science Foundation (Principal
Investigator),
Neural
Dynamic Programming for Automotive Engine Control,
2004-2007.
General Motors
(Principal Investigator),
Adaptive Critic-Based Powertrain Control System Design,
2003-2007.
National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator),
Power
Control and Call Admission Policies for
Multiclass Traffic in SIR-Based
Power-Controlled DS-CDMA Cellular Networks,
2002-2005.
Campus
Research Board (Principal Investigator),
Call
Admission Policies for SIR-Based Power-Controlled
CDMA Systems, 2002.
National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator),
CAREER: Neural
Network-Based Adaptive Critic Designs for
Broadband
Network Traffic Control,
1999-2003.
National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator),
A
Qualitative Study of Time-Lagged Recurrent Networks,
1998-2001.
Blonder Broadcasting Corporation (Principal Investigator),
Digital Video Coding and Compression for HDTV and 3DTV,
1997-1999.
Awards
Best Paper Award,
Acta Automatica Sinica, 2011.
Fellow,
Chinese Association of Automation
(CAA), 2010.
Overseas Outstanding Young Scholar Award,
National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2008.
University Scholar, University of Illinois, 2006-2009.
Fellow,
Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), 2005.
Faculty
Early Career Development (CAREER) Award,
National Science Foundation, 1999.
Harvey
N. Davis Distinguished Teaching Award,
Stevens Institute of
Technology, 1997.
Michael J. Birck Fellowship in Electrical Engineering, University of
Notre Dame, 1990.
Honors
Listed in Who's Who in America (58th Edition, 2004)
Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering (5th Edition, 2000-2001)
Member, Eta Kappa Nu, since 1992
Professional membership
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
Fellow
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
IEEE Control Systems Society
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
International Neural Network Society (INNS), Senior Member
Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), Fellow
Others
Standing Director,
Chinese Association of Automation,
2011-2014 (elected).
Board of Governors,
International Neural Network Society,
2010, 2011, 2012 (elected).
Council Member,
Society of Chinese American Professors and Scietists,
2006-present (elected).
AdCom Member,
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society,
2006, 2007, 2008 (elected).
Chair, Chicago Chapter of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society,
2005-2008.
Books
- D. Liu, H. Zhang, M. Polycarpou, C. Alippi, and H. He, Editors, Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN2011, Berlin: Springer, 2011.
- H. Zhang, D. Liu, and Z. Wang,
Controlling Chaos: Suppression,
Synchronization and Chaotification, London, UK: Springer, 2009.
(Review of this book has appeared in
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, vol.6,
no.1, pp.68-69, Feb. 2011 by W.-K. Ling.)
- F.-Y. Wang and D. Liu, Editors,
Networked Control Systems:
Theory and Applications,
London, UK: Springer, 2008.
(Review of this book has appeared in
International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, vol.24, no.4, pp.335-336,
Apr. 2010 by H. Gao and Z. Sun.)
- A. N. Michel, L. Hou, and D. Liu,
Stability of Dynamical Systems: Continuous, Discontinuous and
Discrete Systems,
Boston, MA: Birkhauser, 2007.
- D. Liu, S. Fei, Z.-G. Hou, H. Zhang, and C. Sun, Editors,
Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN2007,
Berlin: Springer, 2007.
- H. Zhang and D. Liu,
Fuzzy Modeling and Fuzzy
Control,
Boston, MA: Birkhauser, 2006.
(Reviews of this book have appeared in SIAM Review, vol.50, no.1,
pp.153-154, 2008 by R. Belohlavek, and in IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, vol.3,
no.4, pp.8-10, Aug. 2008 by H. He.)
- F.-Y. Wang and D. Liu, Editors,
Advances in Computational
Intelligence: Theory and Applications,
Singapore: World Scientific, 2006.
- D. Liu and P. J. Antsaklis, Editors,
Stability
and Control of Dynamical Systems with Applications,
Boston, MA: Birkhauser, 2003.
(Reviews of this book have
appeared in IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol.24, pp.98-99, Apr. 2004 by H. Zhang, in
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol.14, pp.1373-1376, Nov. 2004 by
H. Zhang, and in International Journal of Hybrid Systems, vol.3-4, pp.339-343, Dec. 2004 by
J. P. Hespanha.)
- A. N. Michel and D. Liu,
Qualitative
Analysis and Synthesis of Recurrent Neural Networks,
New York: Marcel Dekker,
2002.
(This book has been translated into Chinese by H. Zhang, C. Ji, and
Z. Wang and has been published by the Science Press, 2004.)
(Review of this book has appeared in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks,
vol.14, pp.1580-1581, Nov.2003 by R. Romero and F. Gomide.)
- D. Liu
and A. N. Michel,
Dynamical
Systems with Saturation Nonlinearities: Analysis and Design,
New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994.
Book chapters
-
B. DasGupta and D. Liu, "Approximate learning of dynamic models/systems," in Encyclopedia
of the Sciences of Learning, N. M. Seel, Editor. Springer, Chapter 82.
- B. DasGupta, D. Liu, and H. Siegelmann,
"Neural networks,"
in Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics,
T. F. Gonzalez, Editor, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2007, pp.20.1-20.15.
- D. Liu and X. Xiong,
"Motif discoveries in DNA and protein sequences using self-organizing
neural networks,"
in Advances
in Computational Intelligence: Theory and Applications,
F.-Y. Wang and D. Liu, Editors,
Singapore: World Scientific, 2006, pp. 271-302.
- H. Zhang, Z. Wang, and D. Liu,
"Chaotification of the fuzzy hyperbolic model,"
in Integration of Fuzzy Logic and Chaos Theory,
Z. Li, W. A. Halang, and G. Chen, Editors, Springer, 2006, pp.229-257.
- D. Liu,
"Stability,"
in Electrical
Engineering Handbook,
W.-K. Chen, Editor-in-Chief,
New York: Elsevier Academic Press, 2005, pp.1027-1035.
- J. Si, L. Yang, and D. Liu,
"Direct neural dynamic programming,"
in Handbook
of Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming:
Scaling Up to the Real World,
J. Si, A. Barto, W. Powell, and D. Wunsch, Editors,
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2004, pp.123-149.
- D. Liu, Y. Zhang, and S. Hu,
"Power control and call admission control for DS-CDMA cellular networks,"
in Stability
and Control of Dynamical Systems
with Applications, D. Liu and P. J. Antsaklis, Editors,
Boston, MA: Birkhauser, 2003, pp.405-426.
Other publications
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
Derong Liu, Editor-in-Chief
(soon to be IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems)
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Associate editors
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2010-present
Neurocomputing, 2010-present
International Journal of Neural Systems, 2010-present
Science in China Series F: Information Sciences, 2010-present
Journal of Control Science and Engineering, 2006-present
Control and Decision, 2005-present
IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 2008-2009
Automatica, 2006-2009
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 2006-2009
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 2006-2009
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2001-2003
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, 1997-1999
Guest editors
Acta Automatica Sinica, Special Issue on Data-Based Control, Decision, Scheduling,
and Fault Diagnostics, June 2009
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics,
Special Issue on Adaptive Dynamic
Programming and Reinforcement Learning in Feedback
Control, August 2008
Neurocomputing, special issue on Neural Networks, January 2008
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part C: Applications and
Reviews, special issue on Networking,
Sensing and Control, March 2007
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Electronic Letter
IEEE CIS E-Letter
Founding Editor: Derong Liu (2004-2009)
22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11)
I will attend this conference in Barcelona, Spain. The next one, IJCAI-13 will be in Beijing, China.
30th Chinese Control Conference (CCC 2011)
I like to attend this largest control conference in China every year.
2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012)
WCCI 2012 will be in Australia.
9th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA 2012)
WCICA 2012 will be in Beijing, China.
9th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2012)
ISNN 2012 will be in Shenyang, China.
5th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2012)
BICS 2012 will be in Shenyang, China.
23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-13)
IJCAI-13 will be in Beijing, China.
2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2014)
WCCI 2014
Past conferences
General Chairs:
BICS 2012 |
SOLI 2009 |
ICNSC 2008 |
ISNN 2007
Program Chairs:
ADPRL 2009 |
IJCNN 2008 |
ADPRL 2007 |
ISIC 2006 |
ICNSC 2006 |
Tony's Workshop 2003
Program Co-Chairs:
IJCNN 2012 |
ICCDA 2010 |
ICAL 2009 |
ICSCA 2006
Steering Committee Chair:
ICICIP 2012 |
ICIST 2011 |
ISNN 2010 |
ISNN 2009
Publicity Chairs:
WCICA 2010 |
ICANN 2009 |
ICONIP 2006 |
ISIC 2005 |
MED 2005 |
ISNN 2004 |
IJCNN 2004 |
IJCNN 2003
Other Chairs:
IJCAI-13 (Local Arrangements Co-Chair) |
ISNN 2011 (Organizing Committee Chair) |
ICNSC 2010 (Finance Chair) |
ICNSC 2009 (Advisory Co-Chair) |
IJCNN 2009 (Publications Chair) |
ISNN 2008 (Plenary Sessions Chair) |
WCCI 2006 (Registration Chair) |
ISNN 2005 (Special Sessions Chair) |
IV 2005 (Exhibits Chair) |
ICNSC 2005 (Exhibits Chair) |
ISIC 2003 (Publications Chair) |
CCA 1997 (Local Arrangements Chair)
Technical committees
Technical Committee on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Founding Chair (2008-2009), Member (2008-present)
Technical Committee on Blind Signal Processing,
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Secretary (2003-2006), Member (2002-present)
Technical
Committee on Intelligent Control,
IEEE Control Systems Society
Member (1999-present)
Technical Committee on Neural Networks, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Chair (2008), Member (2001-2008)
Technical
Committee on Neural Systems and Applications,
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Chair (2006-2007), Member (1996-present)
Technical
Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems,
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
Member (1999-present)
University of Illinois at Chicago
Departmental Advisory Committee (2001-2002, 2004-2005)
Departmental Computer Committee (2000-present)
Departmental Graduate Committee (1999-2000, 2004, Chair, 2005-present)
Departmental Grievance Committee (2001-2003)
Departmental Promotion and Tenure Commmittee (2002-present)
Departmental Student Scholarship Committee (2000-2001)
Departmental Undergraduate Committee (1999-2000, 2001-2003)
Departmental Web Committee (2003-2004)
Stevens Institute of Technology
Board of Trustees Enrollment Committee (1997-1999)
Committee on Committees (1998-1999)
Computer Knowledge and Infrastructure Committee (1997-1998)
Departmental Graduate Admissions Committee (1995-1999)
Departmental Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Committee (1995-1999)
Departmental Undergraduate Computer Engineering Curriculum Committee (1997-1998)
Graduate Curriculums Committee (1996-1999)
Undergraduate Promotions Committee (1996-1998)
Biosketch
Derong Liu (S'91-M'94-SM'96-F'05) received the B.S. degree in mechanical
engineering from the East China Institute of Technology (now Nanjing University
of Science and Technology), Nanjing, China, in 1982, the M.S. degree in automatic
control theory and applications from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical
engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, in 1994.
Dr. Liu was a Product Design Engineer with China North Industries Corporation,
Jilin, China, from 1982 to 1984. He was an Instructor with the Graduate School
of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, from 1987 to 1990. He was
a Staff Fellow with General Motors Research and Development Center, Warren, MI,
from 1993 to 1995. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, from 1995
to 1999. He joined the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1999, and became
a Full Professor of electrical and computer engineering and of computer science in
2006. He was selected for the "100 Talents Program" by the Chinese Academy of
Sciences in 2008. He has published 10 books (five research monographs and five
edited volumes).
Dr. Liu was an Associate Editor of Automatica (2006-2009). He serves as an Associate
Editor of Neurocomputing and the International Journal of Neural Systems.
He was General Chair for
the 2007 International Symposium on Neural Networks (Nanjing, China).
He is an elected member of the Board of Governors of the International
Neural Network Society.
He was a
member of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society
(1995-2000), an Associate Editor of the
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Fundamental Theory and Applications
(1997-1999), the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2001-2003),
the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2004-2009),
the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (2006-2009),
and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine (2008-2009),
and the Letters Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2006-2008).
He was the Founding Editor of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's Electronic Letter
(2004-2009). Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.
He was General Chair for
the 2009 IEEE Conference on Service Operations, Logistics, and Informatics
(Chicago, IL) and the 2008 IEEE International
Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (Sanya, China).
He was an elected AdCom member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2006-2008).
He received the Michael J. Birck Fellowship from the University of Notre Dame (1990),
the Harvey N. Davis Distinguished Teaching Award from Stevens Institute of Technology
(1997), the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science
Foundation (1999), the University Scholar Award from University of Illinois (2006), and
the Overseas Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the National Natural Science Foundation
of China (2008). He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and a Fellow of the IEEE.
Short biography
Derong Liu received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1994. Dr. Liu was a Staff Fellow with General Motors Research and Development Center, Warren, MI, from 1993 to 1995. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, from 1995 to 1999. He joined the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1999, and became a Full Professor of electrical and computer engineering and of computer science in 2006. He was selected for the "100 Talents Program" by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008. He has published 10 books. Dr. Liu has been an Associate Editor of several IEEE publications. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. He was an elected AdCom member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2006-2008). He received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (1999), the University Scholar Award from University of Illinois (2006-2009), and the Overseas Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2008). He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
