Chung Laung Liu

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Professor Chung Laung (Dave) Liu (劉炯朗), or C. L. Liu is a Chinese computer scientist. Originally from Macau, he received his B.Sc. degree (1956) at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, and his S.M. and E.E. degrees (1960), and his Sc.D. degree (1962) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1962–1972) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1972–1998), where he was Associate Provost from 1995 to 1998. He then retired from UIUC and served as President and Professor of Computer Science at the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Hsinchu, Taiwan from February 1998 to February 2002. Professor Liu is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, City University of Hong Kong, Visiting Professor at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Li K. T. Honorary Chair Professor at National Central University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and Mei Yi Chi Honorary Chair Professor at NTHU.[1]

He is the author and co-author of seven books and monographs, and over 180 technical papers.[1][2] His research interests include computer-aided design of VLSI circuits, real-time systems, computer-aided instruction, combinatorial optimization, and discrete mathematics.

He received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Millennium Medal, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Golden Jubilee Medal in 2000. He also received the IEEE Computer Society, Real Time Systems Technical Committee 1999 Technical Achievement Award (inaugural winner) for his contributions in the area of real time scheduling, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 1998 Technical Achievement Award for his contributions in the area of computer aided design of VLSI circuits. He received an Outstanding Talents Foundation Award in 1998. He is the recipient of the 1994 IEEE Education Medal. He also received the Taylor L. Booth Education Award from the IEEE Computer Society in 1992, and the Karl V. Karlstrom Education Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1990. In 2004, the University of Macau awarded him an honorary doctorate.[1]

He is a member of Academia Sinica,[3] a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,[1] and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[4]

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  1. ^ a b c d A Citation for Professor Liu Chung Laung, speech by Prof. Rui Martins of the Univ. of Macau on the presentation of an honorary doctorate to Liu in 2004.
  2. ^ C. L. Liu's publications in DBLP.
  3. ^ C. L. Liu at Academica Sinica.
  4. ^ ACM Fellows Award Citation.

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