Personal Profile

Liu Fangming is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, and he received the "Rising Star Award of Science & Technology" issued by HUST. He received the B.Eng. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. He was a StarTrack Visiting Faculty with Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing, from 2012 to 2013, and a Visiting Scholar with the University of Toronto, Canada, from 2009 to 2010. He received the National Natural Science Fund (NSFC) for Excellent Young Scholars, and the National High-level Personnel of Special Support Program for Top-Notch Young Professionals, China. He is the PI of NSFC-DFG International Joint Research Project on SmartEdge: Concepts and Methods for Edge Computing, a co-PI of National Key Research & Development (R&D) Plan Project on Key Technologies and Systems of Highly Energy-Efficient Cloud Datacenters (in collaboration with Inspur company which is one of the largest global datacenter and cloud computing solutions provider in the world), and he is also one of the Youth Scientists of the National 973 Basic Research Program Project on SDN-based Cloud Datacenter Networks.

His research interests include networking and distributed systems for shaping the future clouds and Internet, ranging from Cloud Computing and Data Center, Edge Computing and Mobile Cloud/P2P, Green Computing and Energy Efficiency, Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), towards AI for Cloud/Internet and AI by Cloud/Internet. He has a series of publications on Proceedings of the IEEE (ESI highly-cited paper), TON, TPDS, TC, JSAC, USENIX ATC, ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware, INFOCOM, ICNP, ICDCS, IWQoS, ACM e-Energy, SIGMETRICS, etc. He is a co-recipient of Best Paper Awards from IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, etc. In particular, a series of key algorithms and system prototypes developed by him and his research team and collaborators have been deployed in real-world production systems with a large number of users worldwide (e.g., "UniDrive" for multi-clouds architecture and app, "eTime/AppATP/eTrain" for mobile-cloud architecture and app, "FS2You/Rayfile" and "Novasky" for P2P+cloud architecture and app, "NIPD" for ML/data-driven datacenter power management, etc.). Through the collaboration between his research team and Huawei company, part of the above key algorithms and modules have been transferred into open source technologies of hybrid inter-clouds APIs and multi-datacenters management framework (i.e., OpenStack cascading solution to orchestrate multiple OpenStacks for inter-clouds/hybrid-clouds/multi-datacenters geographically-distributed architecture and app), which has been officially approved and integrated by OpenStack (the world’s largest cloud computing open source community) as its Big-Tent module (i.e., "Tricircle"), and then widely adopted and commercialized by Huawei Enterprise Cloud Service, Deutsche Open Telekom Cloud (OTC), Telefonica Open Cloud & Cloud Server, and Inspur company, etc. To bridge theory and practice, he and his team enjoy applying a variety of methodologies and approaches in terms of co-design of software/hardware and cross-disciplinary theories (e.g., game theory, queueing theory, control and optimization theory, etc.), based on realistic measurements. The philosophy and principle of his research roots in a vision: software defines everything and hardware changes the future, while applications driving innovations.

He is a Keynote Speaker in IEEE INFOCOM 2018 Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf 2018:
http://infocom2018.ieee-infocom.org/content/workshop-dcperf-big-data-and-cloud-performance-program). He was a Guest Editor for the IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Systems Journal and CCF Transactions on Networking, an Associate Editor for the Frontiers of Computer Science, and the Editor-in-Chief of EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing. He served as the TPC for IEEE INFOCOM 2013-2018, ACM Multimedia 2014 and 2016, ICDCS 2015-2017, ICNP 2014, IWQoS 2016-2018, ACM e-Energy 2016-2018, WWW 2018 (Demo Track), etc. He also served as a Program Co-Chair of INFOCOM 2017 SmartCity Workshop, the Program Chair of the 9th International Conference on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing (GPC 2014), a Poster/Demo Co-Chair of ICNP 2016, a Publicity Co-Chair of ICNP 2017-2018, IWQoS 2017 and LANMAN 2014, a Program Co-Chair of EAI CollaborateCom 2015 and the 14th CCF National Software Application Conference (NASAC 2015). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the CCF, a Member of the ACM and the USENIX.

Academic Degrees

2007.9 ~ 2011.4

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology - Postgraduate (Doctoral)

2001.9 ~ 2005.7

Tsinghua University   Bachelor's Degree  -  Undergraduate (Bachelor's degree)

Professional Experience

2012.10-2013.9

Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) - StarTrack Visiting Faculty

2009.8-2010.2

University of Toronto, Canada - Visiting Scholar

2007.1-2007.6

The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Research Assistant

2005.9-2006.4

Roxbeam Media Network Corporation - Software Engineer

Courses Taught

[1] Introduction to Information Technology

[2] Introduction to Internet of Things

[3] Cloud Computing: Fundamentals and Technologies

[4] Computer Networking and Communications

[5] Computer Networks Management Technologies

[6] Undergraduate Graduation Projects and Thesis

Awards and Honors

[1] 2020 Elsevier China’s highly cited scholar
[2] 2018 First prize of Natural Science of Ministry of Education
[3] 2020 Second prize of National Natural Science Award

[4] 2017 National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
[5] 2017 Huawei Faculty Grant in HUST, Funded by Huawei Company
[6] 2016 Rising Star Award of Science & Technology, issued by HUST in 2016
[7] 2016 Excellent Head Teacher in 2016, issued by HUST
[8] 2016 IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2016 Best Paper Candidate
[9] 2015 National High-level Personnel of Special Support Program for Top-Notch Young Professionals, China
[10] 2014 Excellent Advisor for Scientific and Technological Innovation in HUST, 2014
[11] 2014 Natural Science Excellent Academic Paper Award of Hubei Province, China, 2014
[12] 2014 Advisor of Excellent Master Dissertation Awards of Hubei Province, China, 2014
[13] 2012 Advisor of Excellent B.S. Dissertation Awards of Hubei Province, China, 2012
[14] 2013 Academic New Star Scholar Award, HUST, 2013
[15] 2013 Excellent Advisor of Undergraduate Students' Summer Social Practice, HUST, 2013
[16] 2012 Advisor of 1st Prize Excellent Undergraduate Graduation Project (Thesis), HUST, 2012
[17] 2012 IEEE IUCC 2012 Best Paper Award
[18] 2012 IEEE CloudCom 2012 Best Paper Candidate
[19] 2011 IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 Best Paper Award
[20] 2010 HKTIIT Post-Graduate Excellence Scholarships
[21] 2009 HKUST Overseas Research Award
[22] 2006 Guanghua Scholarship for Study in Tsinghua University

Selected Projects Funded

[1] Tao Wang, Fangming Liu*, Hong Xu, "An Efficient Online Algorithm for Dynamic SDN Controller Assignment in Data Center Networks", to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 2017..

[2] Xiaomeng Yi, Fangming Liu*, Di Niu, Hai Jin, John C.S.Lui, "Cocoa: Dynamic Container-based Group Buying Strategies for Cloud Computing", to appear in ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS), Volume 2, Issue 2, May 2017..

[3] Zhaojie Niu, Bingsheng He, and Fangming Liu, "JouleMR: Towards Cost-Effective and Green-Aware Data Processing Frameworks", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2017..

[4] Fangming Liu, Jian Guo, Xiaomeng Huang, John Lui, "eBA: Efficient Bandwidth Guarantee under Traffic Variability in Datacenters", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Vol. 25, No. 1, Feb., 2017..

[5] Zhi Zhou, Fangming Liu*, Zongpeng Li, "Bilateral Electricity Trade Between Smart Grids and Green Datacenters: Pricing Models and Performance Evaluation", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Series on Green Communications and Networking, Volume: 34, Issue: 12 Pages: 3993 - 4007, December 2016..

[6] Zhi Zhou, Fangming Liu*, Ruolan Zou, Jiangchuan Liu, Hong Xu, Hai Jin, "Carbon-aware Online Control of Geo-Distributed Cloud Services", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Volume 27, Issue 9, September 2016..

[7] Jian Guo, Fangming Liu*, John Lui, Hai Jin, "Fair Network Bandwidth Allocation in IaaS Datacenters via a Cooperative Game Approach", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 24, Issue 2, April 2016..

[8] Fangming Liu, Peng Shu, John Lui, "AppATP: An Energy Conserving Adaptive Mobile-Cloud Transmission Protocol", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 64, no. 11, Nov. 2015..

[9] Fei Xu, Fangming Liu*, Hai Jin, "Heterogeneity and Interference-Aware Virtual Machine Provisioning for Predictable Performance in the Cloud", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 65, Issue 8, August 2016..

[10] Fei Xu, Fangming Liu*, Hai Jin, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, "Managing Performance Overhead of Virtual Machines in Cloud Computing: A Survey, State of Art and Future Directions", ESI Highly Cited Paper, Proceedings of the IEEE (Impact Factor: 9.237, the most highly-cited general interest journal in electrical engineering and computer science), vol. 102, no. 1, Jan. 2014..

Selected Publications

[1] Tao Wang, Fangming Liu*, Hong Xu, "An Efficient Online Algorithm for Dynamic SDN Controller Assignment in Data Center Networks", to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 2017..

[2] Xiaomeng Yi, Fangming Liu*, Di Niu, Hai Jin, John C.S.Lui, "Cocoa: Dynamic Container-based Group Buying Strategies for Cloud Computing", to appear in ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS), Volume 2, Issue 2, May 2017..

[3] Zhaojie Niu, Bingsheng He, and Fangming Liu, "JouleMR: Towards Cost-Effective and Green-Aware Data Processing Frameworks", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2017..

[4] Fangming Liu, Jian Guo, Xiaomeng Huang, John Lui, "eBA: Efficient Bandwidth Guarantee under Traffic Variability in Datacenters", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Vol. 25, No. 1, Feb., 2017..

[5] Zhi Zhou, Fangming Liu*, Zongpeng Li, "Bilateral Electricity Trade Between Smart Grids and Green Datacenters: Pricing Models and Performance Evaluation", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Series on Green Communications and Networking, Volume: 34, Issue: 12 Pages: 3993 - 4007, December 2016..

[6] Zhi Zhou, Fangming Liu*, Ruolan Zou, Jiangchuan Liu, Hong Xu, Hai Jin, "Carbon-aware Online Control of Geo-Distributed Cloud Services", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Volume 27, Issue 9, September 2016..

[7] Jian Guo, Fangming Liu*, John Lui, Hai Jin, "Fair Network Bandwidth Allocation in IaaS Datacenters via a Cooperative Game Approach", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 24, Issue 2, April 2016..

[8] Fangming Liu, Peng Shu, John Lui, "AppATP: An Energy Conserving Adaptive Mobile-Cloud Transmission Protocol", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 64, no. 11, Nov. 2015..

[9] Fei Xu, Fangming Liu*, Hai Jin, "Heterogeneity and Interference-Aware Virtual Machine Provisioning for Predictable Performance in the Cloud", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 65, Issue 8, August 2016..

[10] Fei Xu, Fangming Liu*, Hai Jin, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, "Managing Performance Overhead of Virtual Machines in Cloud Computing: A Survey, State of Art and Future Directions", ESI Highly Cited Paper, Proceedings of the IEEE (Impact Factor: 9.237, the most highly-cited general interest journal in electrical engineering and computer science), vol. 102, no. 1, Jan. 2014..

Professional Affiliations

[1] NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) Review Panel Committee Expert for General Funding Projects, External Reviewer of Hong Kong RGC (Research Grants Council) General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS), and Expert for reviewing candidates of CCF (China Computer Federation) Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards and CCF Young Talent Support Plan

[2] Keynote speaker in IEEE INFOCOM 2018 workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf 2018): http://infocom2018.ieee-infocom.org/content/workshop-dcperf-big-data-and-cloud-performance-program

[3] Guest Editor for the IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Systems Journal and CCF Transactions on Networking, Associate Editor for the Frontiers of Computer Science, the Editor-in-Chief of EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing, and reviewer for 10+ IEEE/ACM Transactions

[4] TPC for IEEE INFOCOM 2013-2018, ACM Multimedia 2014 and 2016, ICDCS 2015-2017, ICNP 2014, IWQoS 2016-2018, ACM e-Energy 2016-2018, WWW 2018 (Demo Track), etc. A Program Co-Chair of INFOCOM 2017 SmartCity Workshop and 14th CCF National Software Application Conference (NASAC 2015), the Program Chair of the 9th International Conference on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing (GPC 2014), a Poster/Demo Co-Chair of ICNP 2016, a Publicity Co-Chair of ICNP 2017-2018 and IWQoS 2017

[5] China Computer Federation (CCF) Internet Technical Committee, System Software Technical Committee, and Distributed Computing and Systems Technical Committee, ACM China SIGCOMM Chapter Committee Senior Member of the IEEE and the CCF, Member of the ACM and the USENIX

[6] External examiner of PhD defense communittee for the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the City University of Hong Kong

[7] Reviewer of the National Postgraduate Mobile Terminal Application Design Innovation Competition, member of the Expert Committee of the First National University Cloud Computing Application Innovation Competition, judge of the First National University Internet of Things Application Innovation Competition, expert member of the Fifth China University SDN Application Innovation Competition, judge of the National Doctoral Thesis Spot Check of the Ministry of Education, and judge of Hubei Science and Technology Plan

Research Group

Key Laboratory of Service Computing Technology and Systems, Ministry of Education

Enrollment Information

Personal Homepage

Web：http://faculty.hust.edu.cn/liufangming/en/index.htm