Jiayang Liu

Ph.D. Student

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rice University, Houston, TX

 

 Email: jiayang AT rice DOT edu

 Office: Duncan Hall 3039

 Phone: 713-348-2253

 

 

I received my bachelor degree from Electronic Engineering department of Tsinghua University in China, in July 2006. Now I am pursuing my PhD in Computer Engineering, working with Prof. Lin Zhong in Rice Efficient Computing Group since Aug. 2006.

 

Research Interests

  • Mobile system design and application
  • Power efficiency design for wireless network interface

 

Research Projects

  • Innovative user interface for wall-size/3-D display
  • Cross-layer power optimization for wireless communication systems
  • Orbit Watch (Light-weighted Remote Display), in collaboration with Motorola Labs (demo video)

 

Publications:

Jiayang Liu and Lin Zhong, "Micro power management of active 802.11 interfaces," being shepherded for ACM/USENIX Int. Conf. Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June 2008

Wei Gao, Tao Pan, Jiayang Liu, Zuochang Ye, Zhiping Yu, Efficient Impedance Calculation for RF CMOS Spiral Inductors Incoporating Eddy Currents Effect, Chinese Journal of Electronics, Vol. 34, No. 8, 2006, in Chinese.

Ongoing Course:

COMP 422: Parallel Computing

Previous courses:

COMP 440: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

COMP 421: Operating Systems and Concurrent Programming

ELEC 533: Introduction to Random Processes and Applications

COMP 524: Mobile and Wireless Networking

COMP 482: Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Honors:

Rice Graduate Student Fellowship, 2007

Outstanding Graduate of Tsinghua University, 2006

Excellent Diploma Thesis of Electronic Engineering Department, 2006

First-class Academic Scholarship of Tsinghua Undergraduate , 2005

Overall Excellence Scholarship of Tsinghua Undergraduate , 2004

First-class Academic Scholarship of Tsinghua Undergraduate , 2003

Last updated: Mar 16 2008