Xiaodong Liu
Prof X. Liu received his PhD in Computer Science from De Montfort University and joined Napier in 1999. He is currently leading the Intelligence-Driven Software Engineering research group in the SCEBE, Edinburgh Napier University. He was the director of Centre for Information & Software Systems (2008-2014) and Head of Subject of Computer Science (2021-2022). Prof Liu is an active researcher in software engineering with internationally leading reputation and expertise, focusing on its emerging themes including Cyber-Physical Systems, AI-driven smart systems, Internet of Things, services-oriented architecture, evolution of cloud services, and intelligence-driven software engineering. He has meanwhile a successful track record of teaching in a number of software engineering courses which are widely informed by his research activities.
He has led 15 externally funded projects as the PI with a total funding value of over £4.5 millions , and published over 200 papers in established international journals and conferences, 5 book chapters and 3 research handbooks. He is the inventor of 1 patent registered in UK and USA and the founder of a spin-out company. He has been the chair, co-chair of a number of IEEE and ACM International Conferences. He is the editorial board member of 4 international journals, associate editor for 2 international journals, and editor of 3 research books and 6 journals special issues. He is a senior member of IEEE Society and a member of British Computer Society.