Fangming Liu is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, and he received the "Rising Star Award of Science & Technology" issued by HUST. He received the B.Eng. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. He was a StarTrack Visiting Faculty with Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing, from 2012 to 2013, and a Visiting Scholar with the University of Toronto, Canada, from 2009 to 2010. He received the National Natural Science Fund (NSFC) for Excellent Young Scholars, and the National High-level Personnel of Special Support Program for Top-Notch Young Professionals, China. He is the PI of NSFC-DFG International Joint Research Project on SmartEdge: Concepts and Methods for Edge Computing, a co-PI of National Key Research & Development (R&D) Plan Project on Key Technologies and Systems of Highly Energy-Efficient Cloud Datacenters (in collaboration with Inspur company which is one of the largest global datacenter and cloud computing solutions provider in the world), and he is also one of the Youth Scientists of the National 973 Basic Research Program Project on SDN-based Cloud Datacenter Networks.

His research interests include networking and distributed systems for shaping the future clouds and Internet, ranging from Cloud Computing and Data Center, Edge Computing and Mobile Cloud/P2P, Green Computing and Energy Efficiency, Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), towards AI for Cloud/Internet and AI by Cloud/Internet. He has a series of publications on Proceedings of the IEEE (ESI highly-cited paper), TON, TPDS, TC, JSAC, USENIX ATC, ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware, INFOCOM, ICNP, ICDCS, IWQoS, ACM e-Energy, SIGMETRICS, etc. He is a co-recipient of Best Paper Awards from IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, etc. In particular, a series of key algorithms and system prototypes developed by him and his research team and collaborators have been deployed in real-world production systems with a large number of users worldwide (e.g., "UniDrive" for multi-clouds architecture and app, "eTime/AppATP/eTrain" for mobile-cloud architecture and app, "FS2You/Rayfile" and "Novasky" for P2P+cloud architecture and app, "NIPD" for ML/data-driven datacenter power management, etc.). Through the collaboration between his research team and Huawei company, part of the above key algorithms and modules have been transferred into open source technologies of hybrid inter-clouds APIs and multi-datacenters management framework (i.e., OpenStack cascading solution to orchestrate multiple OpenStacks for inter-clouds/hybrid-clouds/multi-datacenters geographically-distributed architecture and app), which has been officially approved and integrated by OpenStack (the world’s largest cloud computing open source community) as its Big-Tent module (i.e., "Tricircle"), and then widely adopted and commercialized by Huawei Enterprise Cloud Service, Deutsche Open Telekom Cloud (OTC), Telefonica Open Cloud & Cloud Server, and Inspur company, etc. To bridge theory and practice, he and his team enjoy applying a variety of methodologies and approaches in terms of co-design of software/hardware and cross-disciplinary theories (e.g., game theory, queueing theory, control and optimization theory, etc.), based on realistic measurements. The philosophy and principle of his research roots in a vision: software defines everything and hardware changes the future, while applications driving innovations. 

He is a Keynote Speaker in IEEE INFOCOM 2018 Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf 2018: http://infocom2018.ieee-infocom.org/content/workshop-dcperf-big-data-and-cloud-performance-program). He was a Guest Editor for the IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Systems Journal and CCF Transactions on Networking, an Associate Editor for the Frontiers of Computer Science, and the Editor-in-Chief of EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing. He served as the TPC for IEEE INFOCOM 2013-2018, ACM Multimedia 2014 and 2016, ICDCS 2015-2017, ICNP 2014, IWQoS 2016-2018, ACM e-Energy 2016-2018, WWW 2018 (Demo Track), etc. He also served as a Program Co-Chair of INFOCOM 2017 SmartCity Workshop, the Program Chair of the 9th International Conference on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing (GPC 2014), a Poster/Demo Co-Chair of ICNP 2016, a Publicity Co-Chair of ICNP 2017-2018, IWQoS 2017 and LANMAN 2014, a Program Co-Chair of EAI CollaborateCom 2015 and the 14th CCF National Software Application Conference (NASAC 2015). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the CCF, a Member of the ACM and the USENIX.

Detailed research progress and publication list can be found here: /hust/mu_grid/fmliu/