Jia (Kevin) Liu,

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

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Research Grants
(Total: $39.67M, Personal Share: ~$5.66M)

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 Young Faculty Award (YFA) D24AP00265, Sept. 2024 -- Aug. 2026, Amount: $500,000 (Sole PI).
  2. "Complex-Structured Optimization Algorithms for Non-Learning Neural Networks," DARPA HR0011-25-2-0019, Apr. 2025 -- Oct. 2026, Amount: $500,000 (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. "Toward Efficient Federated Split Learning for Tactical Autonomous Swarms," AFRL 2024 Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) Award, Sep. 2024 -- Dec. 2024, Amount: $13,000 (Sole PI).
  4. "Toward Efficient Federated Split Learning for Tactical Autonomous Swarms," AFRL 2024 Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) Award Extension Grant, Sep. 2024 -- Dec. 2024, Amount: $13,000 (Sole PI).
  5. "Machine-Learning-Aided Optimization for Wireless Random Access Networks," AFRL 2024 Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) Award, May 2024 -- Jul. 2024, Amount: $15,000 (Sole PI).
  6. "Achieving Low Sample, Communication, and Computation Complexities in Decentralized Bilevel Optimization for Learning over Tactical UAV Swarms," AFRL 2023 Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) Award, Jun. 2023 -- Aug. 2023, Amount: $15,000 (Sole PI).
  7. "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).
  8. "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).
  9. "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).
  10. "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).
  11. "Communication-Efficient Distributed Data Analytics over Tactical UAV Swarms," AFRL 2020 VFRP Summer Extension Grant, Sep. 2020 -- Nov. 2020, Amount: $10,000 (Sole PI).
  12. "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).
  13. "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).
  14. "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).
  15. "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).
  16. "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).
  17. "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).
  18. "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).
  19. "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).
  20. "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).
  21. "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. "Taming Sample and Communication Complexities in Distributed Complex-Structured Optimization for Learning," Meta Research Award, Meta Platforms, Inc., Jan. 2025 -- Dec. 2025 (Sole PI).
  2. "Efficient Online Scheduling for Distributed Machine Learning Inference Jobs," Cisco Research Award, Cisco Systems, Inc., Jul. 2024 -- Jun. 2025, Amount: $150,000 (Lead PI, Co-PI: Ness Shroff).
  3. "Low-Latency Computing Resource Scheduling and Allocation Algorithms for Distributed Deep Learning: A Spatial-Temporal Approach," Cisco Research Award, Cisco Systems, Inc., Oct. 2022 -- Sep. 2023, Amount: $200,000 (Lead PI, Co-PI: Ness Shroff).
  4. "Achieving Data Freshness with Selfish Users in Large-Scale Mobile Crowd-Sourcing," Google Faculty Research Award, Google Inc., Mar. 2020 -- Feb. 2021 (Lead PI, Co-PI: Bin Li).

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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