school of computing, informatics, and decision systems engineering

faculty excellence
Huan Liu honored by the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Huan Liu has been named a Distinguished Member
of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
for “contributions to broadening and deepening
feature selection research for data mining and
spearheading interdisciplinary research on social
computing.”
Liu is a professor in the School of Computing,
Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering.
ACM, with close to 100,000 members, is the world’s
largest educational and scientific computing society.
Liu is one of 47 ACM colleagues to be selected as Distinguished Members
in 2010. He has been recognized for excellence in teaching and research in
computer science and engineering at ASU. His research and teaching focus on
artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, social computing and realworld
applications.
Guoliang Xue named Fellow of
the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Professor Guoliang Xue of the School of Computing,
Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering has
been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest
professional engineering association.
Fellow status is bestowed on institute members who have made significant
contributions to their fields. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and
recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important
career achievement.
Xue has been selected for contributions to survivability and quality of service in
computer networks. His work on the quality of service routing is aimed at finding
a routing path that can transmit a large video file with guaranteed bandwidth in
the network. This enables video stored at one location to be viewed at another
location in real-time with a guaranteed viewing quality.
NSF CAREER Award winner Aviral Shrivastava
National Science Foundation has awarded Aviral
Shrivastava a five year CAREER award to support his
research on reliable computing.
Digital systems have integrated into our lives in
an unprecedented way. From life-support systems
(pacemakers, cochlear implants), communication and
entertainment devices (cell phones, MP3 players),
information hubs (Internet, TV), etc., digital systems
help keep us entertained, comfortable, and generally
increase the standard of life.
Shrivastava says, “At the time our reliance on computing systems is at its greatest,
computing hardware is beginning to become unreliable. Cosmic particles, e.g.,
neutrons floating around in the environment, may strike a transistor, and switch
its logic state. This can have dire consequences, from spectacular program and
system crashes, to subtle wrong results. As the transistor sizes are shrinking, even
low-energy particle strike can cause an error.”
“Even though the hardware is fundamentally becoming more susceptible to such
‘soft errors,’ we still want to keep our computation correct,” he says.
Shrivastava and his team of students are developing compiler techniques which
will detect and compensate for such errors, and provide reliable computation on
unreliable hardware.
2010-2011 AY Best Paper Award
Dejun Yang, Xi Fang, and Guoliang Xue, “OPRA: Optimal Relay Assignment for
Capacity Maximization in Cooperative Networks,” IEEE International Conference
on Communications, Kyoto, Japan, June 2011
2010-2011 AY Best Paper Award-Runner-Up
Dejun Yang, Guoliang Xue, Xi Fang, Satyajayant Misra and Jin Zhang; “Routing
in Max-min Fair Networks: A Game Theoretic Approach,” IEEE International
Conference on Network Protocols, Kyoto, Japan, 2010
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