Jia (Kevin) Liu,

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University

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Awards and Honors

Best Paper Awards

  1. IEEE INFOCOM 2019 Best Paper Award: Fengjiao Li, Jia Liu, and Bo Ji, "Combinatorial Sleeping Bandits with Fairness Constraints," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, Paris, France, Apr. 29 - May 2, 2019 (also received an INFOCOM Best-in-Session Presentation Award, out of 1400+ submissions, acceptance rate 19.6%)
  2. IEEE INFOCOM 2016 Best Paper Award: Jia Liu, Atilla Eryilmaz, Ness B. Shroff, and Elizabeth S. Bentley, "Heavy-Ball: A New Approach to Tame Delay and Convergence in Wireless Network Optimization," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, San Francisco, CA, Apr. 10-15, 2016 (the single best paper out of 1600+ submissions, acceptance rate 17%)
  3. IEEE INFOCOM 2013 Best Paper Runner-up Award: Jia Liu, Cathy H. Xia, Ness B. Shroff, and Hanif D. Sherali, "Distributed Cross-Layer Optimization in Wireless Networks: A Second-Order Approach," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Turin, Italy, Apr. 14-19, 2013 (one best paper and two runner-ups were awarded out of 1600+ submissions, acceptance rate 17%)
  4. IEEE INFOCOM 2011 Best Paper Runner-up Award: Yi Shi, Jia Liu, Canming Jiang, Cunhao Gao, and Y. Thomas Hou, "An Optimal Link Layer Model for Multi-hop MIMO Networks," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai, China, Apr. 10 - 15, 2011 (one best paper and one runner-up were awarded out of 1800+ submissions, acceptance rate 15%)
  5. IEEE ICC 2008 Best Paper Award: Jia Liu, Y. Thomas Hou, and Hanif D. Sherali, "Cross-Layer Optimization for MIMO-Based Mesh Networks with Dirty Paper Coding," in Proc. IEEE ICC 2008, Beijing, China, May 19 - 23, 2008
  6. IBM Research 2024 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award Honorable Mention: Songtao Lu, Siliang Zeng, Xiaodong Cui, Mark S. Squillante, Lior Horesh, Brian Kingsbury, Jia Liu, and Mingyi Hong, "A Stochastic Linearized Augmented Lagrangian Method for Decentralized Bilevel Optimization," in Proc. NeurIPS, New Orleans, LA, Dec. 2022 (NeurIPS'22 acceptance rate: 25.6%. The Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Awards are bestowed annually and recognize a small number of outstanding papers (co-)authored by IBM researchers and published during the preceding year. Out of 57 papers nominated for competition in Year 2024, three winning and four honorable mention papers were selected).

Major Awards and Honors

  1. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA), 2024.
  2. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2020.
  3. Google Faculty Research Award, 2020.
  4. Cisco Research Award, 2023, 2024.
  5. Amazon Visiting Academics (AVA), 2021.
  6. LAS Award for Early Achievement in Research, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University, 2020 (link).
  7. ICLR 2024 Spotlight Presentation: Zhuqing Liu, Xin Zhang, Jia Liu, Zhengyuan Zhu, and Songtao Lu "PILOT: An O(1/T)-Convergent Approach for Policy Evaluation with Nonlinear Function Approximation," in Proc. ICLR, Vienna, Austria, May 2024 (Spotlight Presentation, spotlight rate: 5%, acceptance rate: 31%).
  8. ICML 2022 Long Oral Presentation: Haibo Yang, Xin Zhang, Prashant Khanduri, and Jia Liu, "Anarchic Federated Learning," in Proc. ICML, Baltimore, MD, July 2022 (5630 submissions, acceptance rate: 21.9%, long presentation rate: 2%).
  9. ICLR 2022 Spotlight Presentation: Hairi FNU, Jia Liu, and Songtao Lu, "Finite-Time Convergence and Sample Complexity of Multi-Agent Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Average Reward," in Proc. ICLR, Virtual Event, April 2022 (3391 submissions, acceptance rate: 32%, spotlight rate: 5%).
  10. ICML 2022 Spotlight Presentation: Michinari Momma, Chaosheng Dong, and Jia Liu, "A Multi-Objective / Multi-Task Learning Framework Induced by Pareto Stationarity," in Proc. ICML, Baltimore, MD, July 2022 (acceptance rate: 21.9%, spotlight rate: 5%).
  11. ICML 2021 Spotlight Presentation: Tianchen Zhou, Jia Liu, Chaosheng Dong, and Jingyuan Deng, "Incentivized Bandit Learning with Self-Reinforcing User Preferences," in Proc. ICML, Virtual Event, Jul. 2021 (acceptance rate: 20.4%, spotlight rate: 5%).
  12. NeurIPS 2020 Spotlight Presentation: Peizhong Ju, Xiaojun Lin, and Jia Liu, "Overfitting Can Be Harmless for Basis Pursuit, But Only to a Degree," in Proc. NeurIPS, Vancouver, Canada, December 2020 (9454 submissions, acceptance rate: 20%, spotlight rate: 5%).
  13. Winner of 2022 AFRL/RI and Griffiss Institute (GI) Poster Competition among Summer Visiting Faculty: Low Sample and Communication Complexities in Decentralized Learning: A Triple Hybrid Approach (link).
  14. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Summer Faculty Fellowship Award, 2024.
  15. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Summer Faculty Fellowship Award, 2023.
  16. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Summer Faculty Fellowship Award, 2016.
  17. Technology-Enhanced Teaching Endorsement, Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning, OSU, awarded on June 12, 2023 (link)
  18. IEEE ComSoc Technology News, 08/2013, featuring my research on second-order distributed cross-layer optimization for wireless networks (link).
  19. Co-recipient of Bell Labs President Gold Award, Bell Labs, 2001
  20. Paul E. Torgersen Research Competition Finalist, Virginia Tech, 2009

Awards and Honors Received by My Students

  1. Peiwen Qiu received a Best Poster Award from the Midwest Machine Learning Symposium (MMLS), 2024.
  2. Zhuqing Liu received the Dr. Burn Lin Travel Grant Award sponsored by the endowment from ECE Distinguished Alumnus Dr. Burn Lin, 2023.
  3. Peiwen Qiu received the ACM MobiHoc 2023 Student Travel Grant Award sponsored by National Science Foundation.
  4. Peiwen Qiu received the IEEE INFOCOM 2023 Student Travel Grant Award sponsored by IEEE ComSoc.
  5. Haibo Yang received the NeurIPS 2022 Scholar Award.
  6. Menglu Yu received the IEEE INFOCOM 2022 Student Conference Grant Award sponsored by IEEE ComSoc.
  7. Menglu Yu received the NSF Student Conference Award of IEEE INFOCOM 2021.
  8. Minghong Fang received the Student Scholarship of ACM TheWebConf (WWW) 2021.
  9. Xin Zhang received the Vince Sposito Statistical Computing Award in the Department of Statistics at ISU in 2020.
  10. Minghong Fang received the Research Excellence Award in the Department of Computer Science at ISU in 2020.
  11. Menglu Yu received the Teaching Excellence Award in the Department of Computer Science at ISU in 2020.
  12. John Wahlig received the Dean's High Impact Award for Undergraduate Research in the College of Liberal Arts and Science at ISU in 2020.
  13. Menglu Yu received 2nd Place Winner for Graduate Student Poster Competition of ISU CS Department 50th Anniversary Celebration in 2019.
  14. Xin Zhang received the Holly C. and E. Beth Fryer Award in Statistics (award for top Ph.D. student) in the Department of Statistics at ISU in 2018.

 
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