Kaikai Liu

Kaikai Liu

Associate Professor
(408) 924-7847
Kaikai.liu@sjsu.edu
ENG257
 

Bio

Kaikai Liu is an Associate Professor and Cisco Corporate Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering. His research interests include Intelligent and Autonomous Systems, Mobile and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), Smart Sensing, Data Mining, Next-Generation Communication and Sensing Systems. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conference proceedings, 1 book, and holds 4 patents (licensed by three companies). His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Health of Hawaii, Knight Foundation, and many industry companies including Intel, Arista, and Cisco. He was a member of the NSF Big Learning Center (previously Scalable Software Systems Laboratory). He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida (UF) under the direction of Dr. Xiaolin (Andy) Li. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award at UF (four times), the Apple WWDC Scholarship (2013 and 2014), the Innovator Award from the Office of Technology Licensing at UF (2014), the Top Team Award at NSF I-Corps Winter Cohort (Bay area, 2015), the 2015 Gator Engineering Attribute Award for Creativity at UF, IEEE SWC 2017 Best Paper Award, IEEE SECON 2016 Best Paper Award, ACM SenSys 2016 Best Demo - Runner-up, 2016 CoE Kordestani Endowed Research Professor, 2017 and 2018 CoE Research Professor Award, Faculty Mentoring Award for CSU Student Competition 2018, and 2020 College of Engineering Award for Excellence in Scholarship. He served as the technical program chair for IEEE Mobile Cloud 2020, 2023 and as a TPC member and technical reviewer for many IEEE/ACM conferences and journals.

News

[2024] NVIDIA University Ambassador

[2024] NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) certificate in "Rapid Application Development Using LLMs", "Building LLM Applications with Prompt Engineering", and "Efficient Large Language Model (LLM) Customization".

[2023] "OHANA Center of Excellence on Empowering Behavioral Health" is a five-year project funded by The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the U.S. Department of Health in collaboration with the Department of Health of Hawaii -- Role: Senior Personnel (SJSU side Co-PI)

[2022] "RINGS: Enabling Joint Sensing, Communication, and Multi-Tenant Edge AI for Cooperative Perception Systems" funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) -- Role: Principal Investigator (PI) [link]

[2022] Technical Program Chair, IEEE Mobile Cloud 2023.

[2021] "Intelligent Edge Computing Platform" funded by Intel ( through SJSU Tower Foundation) -- Role: PI

[2021] "Best Practices in Disaster Public Communications" funded by Knight Foundation (through SJSU Research Foundation) -- Role: PI

[2020] 2020 College of Engineering Award for Excellence in Scholarship

[2019] Technical Program Chair, IEEE Mobile Cloud 2020.

[2018] Faculty Mentoring Award for CSU Student Competition

[2018] CoE Research Professor Award 2018;

[2018] Cisco Cooperate Chair Professorship;

[2018] My book "Mobile SmartLife Via Sensing, Localization, and Cloud Ecosystems",  CRC Press. [CRC Press] [Amazon]

[2017] System Demonstration at 2017 NSF CPS PI Meeting [link] [video];

[2017] Local Chair, 2017 AI Frontiers Workshop in Silicon Valley [link];

[2017] Our own designed hardware "SJGateway" has been shipped [photo];

[2017] System Benchmark Chair, NVIDIA AI City Challenge 2017;

[2017] Best Paper Award, IEEE Smart World Congress (SWC) 2017;

[2017] My student team won the First Prize in 2017 Juniper SDN Throwdown;

[2017] 2017 CoE Research Professor Award;

[2016] ACM SenSys 2016 Best Demo - Runner Up;

[2016] PI, NSF EAGER "Creating a Community Infrastructure for Interoperable Emergency Connectivity", $200,000, Period Covered: 8/15/2016 - 7/31/2018, Award No. CNS 1637371;

[2016] IEEE SECON 2016 Best Paper Award;

[2016] PI, Arista Network Funded Research;

[2016] 2016 Kordestani Endowed Research Professor;

[Others] CoE Faculty Mini Grant; SJSU UGA Grant; Outstanding Achievement Award at UF (four times); Apple WWDC Scholarship (2013 and 2014); the Innovator Award from the Office of Technology Licensing at UF (2014); the Top Team Award at NSF I-Corps Winter Cohort (Bay area, 2015);  the 2015 Gator Engineering Attribute Award for Creativity at UF; the National Scholarship of China (the highest honor for nationwide undergraduates in China). 

Funded Projects

  • "OHANA Center of Excellence on Empowering Behavioral Health" is a five-year project funded by The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the U.S. Department of Health in collaboration with the Department of Health of Hawaii.
    • The project focuses on Asian American Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander populations. 
    • As senior personnel, I oversee the data infrastructure, which comprises the data dashboard, data store/lake, data-driven analytics, and data mining algorithms.
  • RINGS: Enabling Joint Sensing, Communication, and Multi-Tenant Edge AI for Cooperative Perception Systems (Funded by NSF), Role: PI
    • The RINGS (Resilient and Intelligent Next-Generation Systems) program is NSF's single largest effort to date to engage public and private partners to jointly support a research program
    • There are seven RINGS award recipient teams in California: UC Berkeley (2), UCLA, USC, UCSD, UCSB, and SJSU.
  • Best Practices in Disaster Public Communication (Funded by Knight Foundation), Role: PI
  • Intelligent Edge Computing Platform (Funded by Intel), Role: PI
  • Health Monitoring and Tracking System for First Responders (Funded by Redline Safety), 
    Role: PI
  • Creating a Community Infrastructure for Interoperable Emergency Connectivity (Funded by NSF)
  • AI Traffic Intersection (Funded by Cisco)
  • Autonomous Assistance System for People with Special Needs (Funded by CoE)
  • Multi-Tenant Network Acceleration Scheme for OpenStack (Funded by Arista Network)
  • Software-Defined Edge Cloud for Smart City (Funded by CoE)

Open Source Projects

Check my [Github page] for my open source projects.

Current Courses (Fall 2024)

  • CMPE258 Deep Learning
  • CMPE249 Intelligent Autonomous Systems

Courses Taught

  • Autonomous Systems: CMPE249 Intelligent Autonomous Systems (new course)
  • Data Analytics: CMPE255 Data Mining, CMPE256 Large-Scale Data Analytics
  • IoT and Embedded Systems: CMPE146 Computer Networks, CMPE148 Real-time Embedded System Co-Design, CMPE181 Internet-of-Things Platform (new course)
  • Software Systems: CMPE220 System Software, CMPE235 Mobile Software System Design, CMPE277 
    Smartphone Application Development, CMPE 287: Software Quality Assurance and Testing

Links

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