Yu David Liu

Yu David Liu is a Professor at the School of Computing, State University of New York at Binghamton. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University under Scott Smith.

Research interests include

• Software Systems
• Energy Efficiency
• Reliability
• Performance Optimization
• Security
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Data-Intensive Software
• Side-Channel Attack Mitigation

His work spans runtime systems, compilers, and programming languages for cross-cutting concerns.

Key trends in recent publications: 2025-2024 focus on TEE security, UAV regulation, and energy-aware data processing. Earlier works explore secure caches, Green JVM methods, and SLAM system bottlenecks.

Scientific Awards

• NSF CAREER Award (2010)
• Google Faculty Research Award (2011)
• Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2018, SUNY Binghamton CS Dept)
• Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2019, Watson School)

Advising: Mentored 11 Ph.D. students (including 2025 Distinguished Dissertation Award winner Timur Babakol) and 14 M.S./B.S. students. Current advisees include Kerem Arikan (Ph.D.), Joseph Raskind (Ph.D.), and Huaxin Tang (Ph.D.).

Grants: Funded by NSF awards 2053391 and 2215016. Former NSF grants include 1910532, 1815949, and 1823260.

Labs: Leads the programming language group at SUNY Binghamton, collaborating on UAV software (JCopter, ICRA'21), energy-efficient systems (Vesta, PLDI'24), and security (TEE-SHirT, NDSS'24).