Lu Liu

Lu Liu received the MSc degree from Brunel University, United Kingdom, and the PhD degree (funded by UK DIF DTC) from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. He is a senior lecturer in the School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Derby, United Kingdom. Before joining the University of Derby, he was a lecturer in the School of Engineering and Information Sciences at Middlesex University, United Kingdom. Prior to his academic career, he was a research fellow in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, working on NECTISE Project which was an UK EPSRC/BAE Systems funded research project involving 10 UK Universities and CoLaB Project which was funded by UK EPSRC and China 863 Program. His research interests are in areas of peer-to-peer computing, software engineering, and service-oriented computing. He has more than 30 scientific publications in reputable journals, academic books, and international conferences. He won the Best Paper Award at the Realising Network Enabled Capability Conference in 2008. He is on the editorial review board of the International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies. He has served as a cochair, TPC member, advisory committee member, and session chair of many international conferences and workshops. He is a member of the IEEE.