Associate Professor Jian Liu is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Georgia, where he leads the Mobile Sensing and Intelligence Security (MoSIS) Lab. Prior to joining UGA, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His research interests include Trustworthy AI, Computational Sensing, Augmented/Mixed Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, and Smart Fitness. His work has been published in top-tier venues across mobile computing, AI, security, and HCI, such as S&P/Oakland, ACM CCS, ACM MobiCom, ICML, CVPR, AAAI, IJCAI, ECCV, ACM MobiSys, ACM SenSys, ACM UbiComp, and IEEE ICASSP. His research has also received broad media coverage from outlets including BBC News, Yahoo News, MIT Technology Review, NBC New York, IEEE Spectrum, WCBS-TV, and Voice of America TV.Dr. Liu has received multiple honors, including the IChemE Biochemical Engineering Award (2023), ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights (2022), Best Paper Awards at IEEE SECON (2017) and IEEE CNS (2018), and the Professional Promise in Research and Creative Achievement Award at both the college and university levels at the University of Tennessee (2025). He has also been recognized as one of Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Most Cited Scientists. Additionally, he holds seven U.S. patents, two of which have been licensed to industry partners. Education Education: Ph.D. from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
