His funded research projects cover the following areas: big-data and cloud computing, multiscale modeling and simulation, high-performance scientific and engineering computing, numerical linear algebra, sensor-oriented machine learning, computational mechanics (with focus on structural mechanics and biomechanics), and fault-tolerance techniques. His research work has appeared in various prestigious journals, book or book chapters, and refereed conference, workshop, and symposium proceedings. He owns one technical pattern that is registered at Univ. of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF). Dr. Liang is serving in the International Journal of Security Technology for Smart Device (IJSTSD), Journal of Mathematical Research and Applications (JMRA), and Current Advances in Mathematics (CAM) as an editorial board member.