Professor Lu Liu

Professor Lu Liu is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Director of Research and Impact in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Exeter. His research interests include Machine Learning, Sustainable Systems and Artificial Intelligence of Things, focusing on developing trustworthy and sustainable AI methods for health care, Net Zero and autonomous vehicles. He is currently working on projects on self-learning digital twining models that can learn from real-world data models, generate data and iteratively evolve over time. 

Professor Liu has over 200 scientific publications in prestigious journals and leading international conferences, and has secured over 30 grants as PI/Co-I which are supported by UKRI/EPSRC, EU, Innovate UK, Royal Society, British Council and leading industries (e.g. BT, Royce-Royce, CGI). He received the Staff Excellence Award in Doctoral Supervision in 2018. Professor Liu has been the recipient of 8 Best Paper Awards from international conferences and was invited to deliver 9 keynote speeches at international conferences. He is currently an Associate Editor for Big Data Mining and Analytics (BDMA) and Peer-to-Peer Networking and Application (PPNA). He has chaired over 20 international conferences, including serving as General Chair for IEEE EUC 2023, IEEE/ACM UCC 2021, IEEE/ACM BDCAT 2021, IEEE SustainCom 2020 and Cyberlife 2019.