She was a member of the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1972 until her retirement in 2000.[1] During this time, she was editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Computers from 1996 to 1999.[3] She worked for Microsoft from 2000 to 2004, when she joined the Academia Sinica.[1]
Books
Liu is the author of the book Real-Time Systems (Prentice-Hall, 2000), and co-author with C. L. Liu of Linear Systems Analysis (McGraw-Hill, 1975).
Recognition
Liu was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 1995 "for contributions to real-time task scheduling methods for computing systems".[4] The IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems gave her their Technical Achievement Award in 2005. In 2008, the Taiwan Institute of Information and Computing Machinery gave her their Information Science Honorary Medal.[3]
Personal life
Liu was married to Dave C.-L. Liu (1934–2020),[5] with whom she founded and co-directed the Real Time and Embedded System Laboratory at the University of Illinois.[6]
^Wen, Wujie (2020), "An interview with professor David C. L. Liu, legendary computer scientist and educator", IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 20 (4): 4–7, doi:10.1109/mcas.2020.3027198, S2CID229231298
^"History and Accomplishments", Cyber Physical Systems Integration Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, retrieved 2021-02-25