He received his Ph.D. degree in management information systems from the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include the economics of information systems, technology adoption and diffusion and standards competition in IT markets. Dr. Liu is an ICIS Doctoral Consortium Fellow (2006) and a recipient of the Net Institute Research Grant (2007). His research has been presented at conferences including ICIS, WISE and INFORMS and appeared in leading information systems journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, The Communications of the ACM and The Communications of the AIS.