Chen Liu

Chen Liu is a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Clarkson University. His research focuses on runtime software behavior modeling via hardware-level data, with applications in multi-core architectures and cybersecurity.

• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California - Irvine (2008)
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California - Riverside (2002)
• B.E., Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China (2000)

Dr. Liu's research bridges processor architecture, embedded systems, and hardware-software co-design. Key areas include multi/many-core multi-threading, power-aware computing, operating system micro-architecture interaction, and reconfigurable computing. His work emphasizes security and resource optimization through hardware acceleration and virtualization.

Over the past decade, Dr. Liu has pioneered hardware/software integrated approaches for runtime behavior modeling, advancing domains like many-core EEG processing, energy-efficient prefetching in mobile systems, and cloud-based virtual machine management. His collaborations with institutions such as Intel and the Air Force Research Lab underscore his impact in embedded and parallel computing.

• Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Summer Faculty Fellow (2015-2016)
• Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Visiting Faculty Research Fellow (2013)

Dr. Liu has secured two NSF grants: the BRIGE grant (2011-2016) for broadening participation in engineering and the MRI grant (2016-2019) for research infrastructure. He leads the Cybersecurity, Autonomous System, and Machine Learning Engineering Lab (CAMEL), driving experimental studies in heterogeneous computing and runtime behavior analysis.