Welcome
Hello and welcome to my homepage!
I joined Anhui University in 2026, after a 26 year career at UIC and brief stays at
several other places, including
General Motors, Stevens, CASIA, USTB,
GDUT, and SUSTech.
Anhui University is located in Hefei, Anhui Province, China, known for its comprehensive range of disciplines. It offers programs across science, engineering, humanities, economics, management, and law, with strong emphasis on emerging interdisciplinary fields like materials science and artificial intelligence. Guided by its motto of "Sincerity, Perseverance, Erudition, and Action," the university is dedicated to cultivating innovative talent and contributing to regional and national development.
Again, I welcome you, visitor no.
* The two photos above were taken by CAA at the annual meeting as perks for the board members.
Some links to my work environment:
School of Artificial Intelligence
Anhui University
QS WUR Ranking of AHU
Official Beijing time
How to write papers and give presentations
ADPRL depository
A useful tool for software testing
My home
Author: Derong Liu Established: September 19, 1995
E-Mail: derong@ahu.edu.cn Last Update: January 6, 2026
Author: Derong Liu Established: September 19, 1995 E-Mail: derong@ahu.edu.cn Last Update: January 6, 2026
Derong Liu's pictures
My pictures (google album)
My photo when I was little |
My wife's photo when she was little
Pictures of my home
A day time view from my office
An evening view from my office
The two tallest buildings at UIC
(my office was in the second tallest building on the left)
Pictures from Tony's Workshop
Pictures from Notre Dame
Pictures from Chicago
Pictures from Beijing
Pictures from Guangzhou
Pictures from Shenzhen
Pictures from Hefei
There are two videos of mine posted here
Youtube video of Derong Liu
Pictures of "Derong Liu"
On the Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 1993
My cars
My wife's pictures
My son's pictures
Hi, my name is Max Liu. These pictures were taken in the past few years.
My older kid
Hi, my name is Emilie Liu. This picture was taken in October 2004.
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My Favorite Pictures
My recent pictures
Disney World 2005
Disney World 2004
Disney World 2002
Disney World 2001
Disney World 2000
Disney World 1999
Disney World 1998
Pictures of my 10th year
Pictures of my 9th year
Pictures of my 8th year
Pictures of my 7th year
Pictures of my 6th year
Pictures of my 5th year
Pictures of my 4th year
Pictures of my 3rd year
Pictures of my 2nd year
Pictures of my 1st year
A picture I took
Another picture I took
My dog
Two
articles I wrote
10AM School, September 2007
Don’t Go To New Jersey For Winter
Break, March 2008
Search Engines You Can Use
Google
Bing
Yahoo
Lycos
Infoseek
Excite
HotBot
LookSmart
Interesting Chinese Articles
Future CEO course
Want to live longer?
How to train your kids
Dreams and reality
Top ten garbage food
WHO's top ten garbage food
Other links
Derong Liu's travel info
ADPRL Depository
ADPRL Matlab programs
IEEE Xplore
Academies in Europe
Who's Who in America
US News College Rankings
US News Graduate School Rankings
Official University Rankings in China 2017 (in Chinese)
Official University Rankings in China 2012 (in Chinese)
Top 40 Schools in Control Science and Engineering
Top 40 Schools in Computer Science and Technology
Top 100 Engineering Schools in China 2010-2011
Top 70 Computer Science and Engineering Schools in China 2011-2012
Top 100 Universities in China 2016
Top 100 Universities in China 2003
Top 25 Engineering Schools in China 2003
Internal Revenue Service
Naturalization Services
U.S. Citizenship Study Page
JPMorgan Chase Bank
ComEd
Peoples Gas
T-Mobile
Allstate Insurance
Employment history
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Employment and education history
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Education background
Current research interests
Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning
Computational Intelligence
Control and Management of Complex Systems
Intelligent Control and Information Processing
Neural Networks
Smart Grid
Prior research accomplishments
Wireless
Communications and Wireless Networks
Network Traffic Modeling
Recurrent Neural Networks (Associative Memories)
Nonlinear
Dynamical Systems (Stability Analysis)
My PhD students
Chao Li, Ph.D., July 2017
Hongwen Ma, Ph.D., July 2017
Guang Shi, Ph.D., July 2017
Shu Wang, Ph.D., May 2016
Pengfei Yan, Ph.D., July 2016
Hongliang Li, Ph.D., July 2015
Xiong Yang, Ph.D., July 2014
Yingying Ma, Ph.D., May 2014
Dehua Zhang, Ph.D., July 2013
Yuzhu Huang, Ph.D., July 2013
Zhuo Wang, Ph.D., May 2013
Ding Wang, Ph.D., July 2012
Ting Huang, Ph.D., Dec. 2011
Ning Jin, Ph.D., Dec. 2011
Zhongyu Pang, Ph.D., Dec. 2007
Xiaoxu Xiong, Ph.D., May 2006
Saqning Hu, Ph.D., May 2006
Ying Cai, Ph.D., Dec. 2005
Yi Zhang, Ph.D., May 2004
Sergio Ledesma, Ph.D., Dec. 2000
Endre I. Sara, Ph.D., Dec. 1999
Zanjun Lu, Ph.D., Dec. 1999
Myron E. Hohil
(co-supervised), Ph.D., May 1998
John C. Kiss, Ph.D., May 1996
Research support
National
Science Foundation (Principal Investigator),
EAGER: Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Residential Energy
System
Control and Management,
2010-2011.
National
Science Foundation (Principal Investigator),
Finite
Horizon Discrete-Time Adaptive Dynamic Programming,
2006-2009.
National Science Foundation (Co-Principal
Investigator),
SENSORS:
Approximate Dynamic Programming for Dynamic
Scheduling and Control in Sensor Networks, 2005-2008.
National Science Foundation (Principal
Investigator),
Neural
Dynamic Programming for Automotive Engine Control,
2004-2007.
General Motors
(Principal Investigator),
Adaptive Critic-Based Powertrain Control System Design,
2003-2007.
National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator),
Power
Control and Call Admission Policies for
Multiclass Traffic in SIR-Based
Power-Controlled DS-CDMA Cellular Networks,
2002-2005.
Campus
Research Board (Principal Investigator),
Call
Admission Policies for SIR-Based Power-Controlled
CDMA Systems, 2002.
National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator),
CAREER: Neural
Network-Based Adaptive Critic Designs for
Broadband
Network Traffic Control,
1999-2003.
National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator),
A
Qualitative Study of Time-Lagged Recurrent Networks,
1998-2001.
Blonder Broadcasting Corporation (Principal Investigator),
Digital Video Coding and Compression for HDTV and 3DTV,
1997-1999.
Awards
Member,
Academia Europaea - The Academy of Europe (AE), 2021.
Fellow,
Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), 2005.
Fellow,
International Neural
Network Society (INNS), 2013.
Fellow,
International Association for Pattern
Recognition (IAPR), 2016.
Fellow,
Chinese Association of Automation
(CAA), 2010.
Neural Networks Pioneer Award,
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2022.
Hsue-Shen Tsien Paper Award,
IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2019.
Dennis Gabor Award,
International Neural Network Society, 2018.
Outstanding Paper Award,
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2018.
Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award,
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Society, 2018.
Best Paper Award,
22nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015.
Outstanding Achievement Award,
Asia Pacific Neural
Network Assembly (APNNA), 2014.
Best Paper Award,
20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Daegu, Korea, 2013.
Distinguished Lecturer,
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2012-2014 and 2016-2018.
Best Paper Award,
Acta Automatica Sinica, 2011.
Overseas Outstanding Young Scholar Award,
National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2008.
University Scholar, University of Illinois, 2006-2009.
Faculty
Early Career Development (CAREER) Award,
National Science Foundation, 1999.
Harvey
N. Davis Distinguished Teaching Award,
Stevens Institute of
Technology, 1997.
Michael J. Birck Fellowship in Electrical Engineering, University of
Notre Dame, 1990.
Honors
Listed in Who's Who in America (58th Edition, 2004)
Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering (5th Edition, 2000-2001)
Listed in Who's Who in American Education (7th Edition, 2006-2007)
Member, Eta Kappa Nu, since 1992
Professional membership
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
Fellow
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
IEEE Control Systems Society
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Fellow
International Neural Network Society (INNS), Fellow
Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), Fellow
Asia Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS), Member
Others
Member of the Council, International Federation of Automatic Control,
2014¨C2017.
Chair, Beijing Chapter of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society,
2012-2014.
Executive Director,
Chinese Association of Automation,
2011-present (elected).
Governing Board Member,
Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly, (2011-2015), and Asia Pacific Neural Network Society
2016-present.
Board of Governors,
International Neural Network Society,
2010, 2011, 2012 (elected).
Council Member,
Society of Chinese American Professors and Scientists,
2006-2013 (elected).
AdCom Member,
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society,
2006-2008 (elected) and 2015-2017. (elected).
Chair, Chicago Chapter of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society,
2005-2008.
Publications
Artificial Intelligence Review
Derong Liu, Editor-in-Chief (2014-present)
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Springer Links
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Derong Liu, Editor-in-Chief (2012-2015)
Editorial board |
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IEEE Xplore
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
Derong Liu, Editor-in-Chief (2010-2011)
Editorial board |
IEEE Xplore
CAAI Artificial Intelligence Research
Derong Liu, Deputy Editor (2021-present)
Editorial board |
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SciOpen
IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
Derong Liu, Deputy Editor-in-Chief (2014-present)
Editorial board |
Submit a paper |
IEEE Xplore
Acta Automatica Sinica (in Chinese)
Derong Liu, Deputy Editor-in-Chief (2013-2019)
Editorial board |
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CAA Papers Online
Associate editors
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2018-present
Soft Computing, 2012-present
Neural Computing and Applications, 2012-present
Science in China Series F: Information Sciences, 2010-present
Control and Decision, 2005-present
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2014-2017
Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, 2012-2017
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2012-2015
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2010-2016
Neurocomputing, 2010-2015
International Journal of Neural Systems, 2010-2014
IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 2008-2009
Journal of Control Science and Engineering, 2006-2013
Automatica, 2006-2010
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 2006-2009
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 2006-2009
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2001-2003
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, 1997-1999
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Electronic Letter
IEEE CIS E-Letter
Founding Editor: Derong Liu (2004-2009)
24th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2017)
ICONIP 2017 was in Guangzhou, China, November 14-18, 2017.
12th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA 2016)
WCICA 2016 was in Guilin, China, June 12-15, 2016.
2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2014)
IEEE WCCI 2014 was in Beijing, China, July 6-11, 2014.
Past conferences
General Chair:
WCICA 2016 |
WCCI 2014 |
BICS 2013 |
BICS 2012 |
SOLI 2009 |
ICNSC 2008 |
ISNN 2007
Program Chair:
INISTA 2014 |
ICONS 2013 |
CPCC 2013 |
ADPRL 2009 |
IJCNN 2008 |
ADPRL 2007 |
ISIC 2006 |
ICNSC 2006 |
Tony's Workshop 2003
Program Co-Chair:
IJCNN 2012 |
ICCDA 2010 |
ICAL 2009 |
ICSCA 2006
Organizing Committee Chair:
ICIST 2015 |
ICICIP 2013 |
ISNN 2012 |
ISNN 2011
Steering Committee Chair:
ICICIP 2014 |
ICACI 2013 |
ISNN 2013 |
ICICIP 2012 |
ICIST 2012 |
ICIST 2011 |
ISNN 2009
Publicity Chair:
WCICA 2010 |
ICANN 2009 |
ICONIP 2006 |
ISIC 2005 |
MED 2005 |
ISNN 2004 |
IJCNN 2004 |
IJCNN 2003
Other Chairs:
WCICA 2014 (Panel Discussion Chair) |
IJCAI-13 (Local Arrangements Co-Chair) |
WCICA 2012 (Invited Session Chair) |
ICNSC 2010 (Finance Chair) |
ICNSC 2009 (Advisory Co-Chair) |
IJCNN 2009 (Publications Chair) |
ISNN 2008 (Plenary Sessions Chair) |
WCCI 2006 (Registration Chair) |
ISNN 2005 (Special Sessions Chair) |
IV 2005 (Exhibits Chair) |
ICNSC 2005 (Exhibits Chair) |
ISIC 2003 (Publications Chair) |
CCA 1997 (Local Arrangements Chair)
