Dr. Yunhuai Liu is currently a professor in the Big Data Research Center at Peking University. He received his B.E degree in Computer Science and Technology from Tsinghua University, Beijing in 2000, and PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2008. From 2008 to 2010 he worked in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a research assistant professor. In the year 2010, he joined Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences as an associate professor. From 2011 to 2016, he was with the Third Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security, China.

Dr. Liu is the author and co-author of over 100 papers in premier network and system journals and conferences with over 3,700 citations (H-index 31). Dr. Liu is the receipient of the NSFC Outstanding Youth Foundation (2013). He serves as the TPC member of IEEE Mobile Ad-hoc Networks and IEEE SUTC, and reviewer for many international conferences such as ACM SIGCOMM, ACM Mobicom, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE Percom, IEEE ICDCS, and international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Networks (TON), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), and etc. His research papers have been published in many prestigious conferences and journals such as ACM Mobicom, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE ICPADS, and IEEE TPDS, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). The paper titled “Opportunity-based topology control in wireless sensor networks” obtained the only Best Paper Award in ICDCS 2008 (1 out of 638). He is an ACM and IEEE member.