Xiang-yang Liu
Xiang-yang Liu
Assistant Professor
Research Biography
Alex Liu joined Michigan State University in 2006 after earning his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the co-author of a number of papers published at conferences/journals such as Sigmetrics, PODC, ICNP, Infocom, DSN, ICDCS, TPDS. His research interests include networking, security, and systems. He won the 2004 IEEE & IFIP William C. Carter Award with the citation, "to recognize an individual who has made a significant contribution to the field of dependable computing through his or her graduate dissertation research''.
Selected Publications
- Alex X. Liu, Fei Chen, JeeHyun Hwang, and Tao Xie. "XEngine: A Fast and Scalable XACML Policy Evaluation Engine''. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (Sigmetrics), Annapolis, Maryland, June 2008.
- Alex X. Liu and Fei Chen. "Collaborative Enforcement of Firewall Policies in Virtual Private Networks''. In Proceedings of the Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), Toronto, Canada, August 2008.
- Alex X. Liu, Chad R. Meiners, and Yun Zhou. "All-Match Based Complete Redundancy Removal for Packet Classifiers in TCAMs''. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom), Phoenix, Arizona, April 2008.
- Chad R. Meiners, Alex X. Liu, and Eric Torng. "TCAM Razor: A Systematic Approach Towards Minimizing Packet Classifiers in TCAMs''. In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Beijing, China, October 2007.
Selected Achievements and Awards
- 2004 IEEE & IFIP William C. Carter Award