ZHEN LIU

Zhen Liu received the Ph.D degree in Computer Science from the University of Orsay (Paris XI), France. He was with the France Telecom R&D as a Research Associate from 1986 to 1988. He joined INRIA (the French national research center on information and automation) in 1988, first as a Researcher, then became a Research Director. He joined IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in 2000, and is now the manager of the System Analysis and Optimization group. He is also the current chair of the Professional Interest Group on Perfornance Modeling and Analysis at IBM Research. Zhen Liu is a member of the IFIP W.G. 7.3 and an External Member of the Evaluation Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has served NSF Panel and a number of conference program committees.

Zhen's current research interests are in control and performance analysis of communication networks, modeling of traffic and transport protocols, design and analysis of routing algorithms in wired and wireless networks, scheduling and performance evaluation of parallel and distributed systems. He is also interested in Petri nets and queueing networks.

While he was with INRIA, Zhen Liu was also an adjunct professor of the University of Paris VI (University of Pierre & Marie Curie) and the University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France. He was teaching DEA (i.e. Frecnch graduate) courses of Operations Research, Networking and Parallel Computing.