Her research involves both experimental and theoretical study of distributed data intensive systems, including distributed middleware, advanced Internet systems and Internet data management. Dr. Liu has published more than 150 articles in international journals and international conferences. She is the PC co-Chair of IEEE 2006 International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006), the vice chair of IEEE 2006 International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006), the co-general chair of IEEE ICDE 2007. Dr. Liu is on the editorial board of several International Journals, including TKDE, VLDB Journal. Her current research is partially funded by government grants from NSF, DARPA, DoE and industry grants from IBM and HP. [ TOP ]