Jia Liu received his Ph.D. degree in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA in 2010. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University. His research focus is in the areas of optimization of communication systems and networks, theoretical foundations of cross-layer optimization on wireless networks, design of algorithms, and information theory. Dr. Liu was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies in Beijing China from 1999 to 2003.

Dr. Liu is a senior member of IEEE and a member of SIAM. He is a regular reviewer for major IEEE conferences and journals. He was a recipient of the Bell Labs President Gold Award in 2001, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Students Abroad in 2008, and the IEEE ICC 2008 Best Paper Award. He received the Best Paper Runner-up Award in IEEE INFOCOM 2011 and the Best Paper Runner-up Award in IEEE INFOCOM 2013. He received the Best Paper Award in IEEE INFOCOM 2016. He has served as a TPC member for IEEE INFOCOM since 2010.