Jia (Kevin) Liu,

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

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Research Grants
(Total: $39.07M, Personal Share: ~$5.06M)

National Science Foundation (NSF)

  1. "Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: Real-Time Crowd-Sourced Geospatial Digital Twin for Cyber-Physical Systems," ECCS-2331104, 06/2024 -- 05/2027, Amount: $1,200,000 (Lead PI, Co-PIs: Bin Li, Randall Berry, and Rongjun Qin).
  2. "CAREER: Computing-Aware Network Optimization for Efficient Distributed Data Analytics at the Wireless Edge," CNS-1943226, 10/2020 -- 09/2025, Amount: $524,125 (Sole PI).
  3. "SpecEES: Toward Spectral and Energy Efficient Cross-Layer Designs for Millimeter-Wave-Based Massive MIMO Networks," ECCS-1818791, 08/2017 -- 07/2020, Amount: $549,999 (Lead PI, Co-PI: John Volakis).
  4. "CIF: Small: Taming Convergence and Delay in Stochastic Network Optimization with Hessian Information," CCF-1758736, 07/2016 -- 08/2019, Amount: $317,896 (Sole PI).
  5. "NeTS: Small: Toward Optimal, Efficient, and Holistic Networking Design for Massive-MIMO Wireless Networks," CNS-1758757, 10/2015 -- 09/2018, Amount: $300,000 (Sole PI).
  6. "HDR TRIPODS: D4 (Dependable Data-Driven Discovery) Institute," NSF-CCF-1934884, Oct. 2019 -- Sep. 2022 (Co-PI, Lead PI: Prof. Hridesh Rajan). See also the special issue of Atanasoff Today (the magazine of the ISU CS department) featuring the D4 Institute.
  7. "PAWR Platform ARA: Wireless Living Lab for Smart and Connected Rural Communities," NSF-CNS-2130889, Jun. 2021 -- May 2026 (Senior Personnel, Lead PI: Prof. Hongwei Zhang). See also the ISU news release here featuring the ARA.
  8. "AI Institute for Future Edge Networks and Distributed Intelligence (AI-EDGE)," NSF-CNS-2112471, Oct. 2021 -- Sept. 2026, Amount: $20,000,000 (Senior Personnel, Lead PI: Prof. Ness Shroff). See also the OSU news release here featuring the AI-EDGE.
  9. "PARTNER: AI/ML-Driven Edge Computing for Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis/Mechanism Study," IIS-2324052, Sept. 2023 -- Aug. 2027, Amount: $2,800,000 (Senior Personnel, Lead PI: Prof. Jie Wu, Co-PIs: Bingmei Fu, Nicholas Madamopoulos, Yingbin Liang, and Jun Yoshioka).

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

  1. "Decentralized Sequential Decision Making in the Data-Limited Regime: A Self-Supervised Pretrained Foundation Model Approach," DARPA YFA Award (D24AP00265), Sept. 2024 -- Aug. 2026 (Sole PI).

Office of Naval Research (ONR)

  1. "Enabling Federated Learning with Small, Low Power, and Computationally Constrained Devices: A Decentralized-Client-Server Approach," ONR 6.2 Grant (ONR N00014-24-1-2729), Sept. 2024 -- Aug. 2027 (Lead PI, Personal share: $250K, Co-PIs: Ness Shroff and Eylem Ekici).
  2. "Achieving Low Delay and Highly Adaptive Tactical Networking with Multi-Path TCP," ONR 6.2 Grant (ONR N00014-17-1-2417), Feb. 2017 -- Feb. 2020 (Co-PI, Personal share: $200K, Lead PI: Ness Shroff).

Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) /Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

  1. "Machine-Learning-Aided Optimization for Wireless Random Access Networks," AFRL (PGSC-SC-111374-19s), Nov. 2023 -- Sept. 2024, Amount: $160,000 (Sole PI).
  2. "Taming Delay and Convergence Speed in Tactical Autonomous Swarms Network Optimization," AFRL (FA8750-18-1-0107), Jul. 2018 -- Jan. 2021, Amount: $500,000 (Sole PI).
  3. "Taming Sample, Communication, and Memory Complexities in Decentralized Learning over Tactical UAV Swarms," AFRL 2022 Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP) Award, Jun. 2022 -- Aug. 2022, Amount: $15,473 (Sole PI).
  4. "Achieving Low Sample and Communication Complexities in Decentralized Bilevel Learning over Tactical UAV Swarms," AFRL 2022 VFRP Summer Extension Grant, Oct. 2022 -- Dec. 2022, Amount: $10,000 (Sole PI).
  5. "Communication-Efficient Distributed Data Analytics over Tactical UAV Swarms," AFRL 2021 Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP) Award, May 2021 -- Jul. 2021, Amount: $12,051 (Sole PI).
  6. "Communication-Efficient Distributed Data Analytics over Tactical UAV Swarms," AFRL 2020 Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP) Award, May 2020 -- Jul. 2020, Amount: $11,700 (Sole PI).
  7. "Communication-Efficient Distributed Data Analytics over Tactical UAV Swarms," AFRL 2020 VFRP Summer Extension Grant, Sep. 2020 -- Nov. 2020, Amount: $10,000 (Sole PI).
  8. "Optimal Energy Control for Autonomous Solar-Powered Long-Cruising Tactical UAV Swarms," AFRL 2019 Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP) Award, Jun. 2019 -- Aug. 2019, Amount: $15,650.32 (Sole PI).
  9. "Taming Delay, Robustness, Convergence, and Energy Efficiency for Airborne Wireless Network Optimization," AFRL 2019 VFRP Summer Extension Grant, Sep. 2019 -- Nov. 2019, Amount: $10,000 (Sole PI).
  10. "Efficient and Elastic Tactical Resource Allocation Optimization for Airborne Autonomous Swarms," AFRL 2018 Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP) Award, Jul. 2018 -- Aug. 2018, Amount: $15,587.58 (Sole PI).
  11. "Efficient and Elastic Tactical Resource Allocation Optimization for Airborne Autonomous Swarms," AFRL 2018 VFRP Summer Extension Grant, Aug. 2018 -- Oct. 2018, Amount: $10,000 (Sole PI).
  12. "Dynamic Resource Allocation for Spectral and Energy Efficiency Optimization in Unmanned Airborne Wireless Networks," AFRL 2017 Research Grant Award, Aug. 2017 -- Oct. 2017, Amount: $44,500 (Sole PI).
  13. "Momentum-Based Dynamic Resource Allocation for Unmanned Airborne Wireless Network Optimization," AFRL 2017 Research Grant Award, Aug. 2017 -- Oct. 2017, Amount: $10,000 (Sole PI).
  14. "Toward Optimal, Efficient, and Adaptive Resource Allocation Designs for Airborne Wireless Networks," AFOSR 2016 Summer Faculty Fellowship (SFFP) Award, May 2016 -- Aug. 2016, Amount: $22,610.80 (Sole PI).
  15. "Toward Optimal, Efficient, and Adaptive Resource Allocation Designs for Airborne Wireless Networks," AFOSR 2016 Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) Extension Grant, Sep. 2016 -- Oct. 2016, Amount: $10,000 (Sole PI).
  16. "Dynamic Resource Allocation for Airborne Networks under Spectral, Spatial, and Temporal Uncertainty," AFRL 2015 Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP) Award, Jun. 2015 -- Aug. 2015, Amount: $18,128 (Sole PI).
  17. "Dynamic Resource Allocation for Airborne Networks under Spectral, Spatial, and Temporal Uncertainty," AFRL 2015 VFRP Summer Extension Grant, Sep. 2015 -- Oct. 2015, Amount: $10,000 (Sole PI).

Industrial Grants / Gifts

  1. "Achieving Data Freshness with Selfish Users in Large-Scale Mobiel Crowd-Sourcing," Google Faculty Research Award, Google Inc., Mar. 2020 -- Feb. 2021 (Lead PI, Co-PI: Bin Li).
  2. "Low-Latency Computing Resource Scheduling and Allocation Algorithms for Distributed Deep Learning: A Spatial-Temporal Approach," Cisco Systems, Inc., Oct. 2022 -- Sep. 2023, Amount: $200,000 (Lead PI, Co-PI: Ness Shroff).
  3. "Efficient Online Scheduling for Distributed Machine Learning Inference Jobs," Cisco Systems, Inc., Jul. 2024 -- Jun. 2025, Amount: $150,000 (Lead PI, Co-PI: Ness Shroff).

Other Grants (Senior Personnel)

  1. "CPS: Synergy: Collaborative Research: Cognitive Green Building: A Holistic Cyber-Physical Analytic Paradigm for Energy Sustainability," NSF-CNS-1556582, Jan. 2015 -- Dec. 2017 (Personal share: $200K, PI: Prof. Ness B. Shroff, Co-PIs: Qian Chen, Thomas Hou, Wenjing Lou).
  2. "ECCS: Toward Efficient and Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems Design for the Smart Electric Power Grid," NSF-ECCS-1232118, Sept. 2012 -- Sept. 2015 (PI: Cathy H. Xia, Co-PI: Prof. Ness B. Shroff).

Acknowledgement

I gratefully acknowledge the ongoing support from NSF (CAREER CNS-1943226, ECCS-1818791, CCF-1758736, CNS-1758757, ECCS-2331104), DARPA YFA (D24AP00265), ONR, and AFOSR / AFRL (FA8750-18-1-0107, SFFP, VFRP awards, and the associated extension grants), as well as a variety of industrial grants including Cisco, Meta, Amazon, and a Google Faculty Research Award for my research.



 
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