Prof. Erwu Liu, IET Fellow
Director, Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Blockchain Applications And Services
Director, PAI Center: IoT-NG Lab., Artificial Intelligent & Blockchain Intelligent Lab. (AIBI), Positioning & Navigation Lab. (PNL)
School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University
Email: erwu.liu (at) ieee.org, OR erwuliu (at) tongji.edu.cn
Website: http://www.iot-ng.com OR http://erwuliu.weebly.com
Director, PAI Center: IoT-NG Lab., Artificial Intelligent & Blockchain Intelligent Lab. (AIBI), Positioning & Navigation Lab. (PNL)
School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University
Email: erwu.liu (at) ieee.org, OR erwuliu (at) tongji.edu.cn
Website: http://www.iot-ng.com OR http://erwuliu.weebly.com
News:
2020.01: Shanghai Government agreed to launch the Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Blockchain Applications And Service. Prof. Erwu Liu is the director of the center.
2019.12: Prof. Erwu Liu was appointed the Founding Editor-in-Chief of IET Blockchain.
2019.11: Develop the Indoor Navigation System for the 2nd China International Import Exhibition (CIIE).
2019.04: Speech at "Empower Information Accessibility with AI" Workshop, United Nations' WSIS Forum
2018.12: Launch the IEEE Shenzhen Blockchain Group and IEEE Hangzhou Blockchain Group, led by Tencent and Ant Financial respectively.
2018.11: Develop the Indoor Navigation System for the 1st China International Import Exhibition (CIIE)
2018.10: China College Students' "Internet+" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (1st Prize)
2018.07: Launch the Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Intelligence (AIBI) Lab.
2018.07: Launch the IEEE Blockchain Shanghai Group. Prof. Erwu Liu is the Chair.
2018.07: Meet with IEEE Blockchain Co-Chairs Dr. Ramesh Ramadoss and Prof. Chunming Rong.
2018.07: Meet with Dr. Whitfield Diffie (ACM Turing Award Winner).
2018.07: Provide indoor positioning and navigation for the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China in CIIE.
2018.07: Provid indoor positioning and navigation for 150+ public places in HK.
2018.07: Provide indoor positioning and navigation for National Stadium - Bird's Nest.
2018.06: Provid indoor positioning and navigation for the China International Import Exhibition (CIIE).
2018.06: Provide indoor positioning and navigation for the National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC).
2018.06: Sign agreement with Cambridge University Press to publish the book “Magnetic Communications”.
2018.06: CFP--Blockchain Technology and Applications.
2018.05: Visit National Stadium - Bird's Nest.
2018.05: Visit National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC).
2018.04: Prof. Erwu Liu served as an associate editor of IEEE Access.
2018.04: Win the Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition 2018, once again after 2016.
2018.04: Serve as a Committee Member of CCF (China Computer Federation) Blockchain.
2018.03: Serve as a guest editor of Special Issue on Blockchain for the IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.
2018.01: Lead the development of IEEE Blockchain Initiative in China.
2018.01: Serve as member/voting member of IEEE P2418 Blockchain Working Group.
2018.01: Serve as Tongji's Key Contact and Representative to IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA)
2018.01: Speech at ShanghaiTech University and Shanghai Institute of Fog Computing Technology (SHIFT).
2017.12: Intelligent Interconnect Joint Lab (with ARM) launched.
2017:12: Serve as the Lead Guest Editor of Special Issue on Blockchain for China Communications (guest editor team: Erwu Liu@Tongji, Alex Pentland@MIT, Greg Adamson@Melbourne, Wei-Tek Tsai@BeiHang, Yunlei Zhao@Fudan).
2016.12: Prof. Erwu Liu was elected as Distinguished Member of the CCF.
2016.12: Dr. Rui Wang was promoted to Associate Professor.
2016.11: Serve as an editor for China Communications.
2016.11: Speech at IEEE UPINLBS 2016.
2016.11: DWELT technology won the Silver Innovation Award at CIIF 2016.
2016.10: Keynote speech at WGDC City Summit (Big Data and Smart Cities).
2016.09: Keynote speech at International UAS CHINA 2016.
2016.06: Strategic agreement with National Exhibition Convention Center (NECC).
2016.05: Visit Data Science Institute, and Prof. Kin Leung (Head of CSP) at Imperial College.
2016.05: Dr. Zhi Sun (Assistant Professor @SUNY) visited the Lab.
2016.05: Dr. Yan Zhang (IET Fellow, Head of Department of Networks @Simula, Norway) visited the Lab.
2016.05: Cambridge University Press invited to author a book entitled "Magnetic Communications--Theory and Applications".
2016.04: Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition (IPSN) 2016 (1st Place).
2016.02: Collaboration agreement with GuangDong Water on smart water resource.
2015.11: Exhibit DWELT indoor localization in the 17th China International Industry Fair (CIIF) 2015.
2015.09: Ericsson (Shanghai) Corp. visited the Lab. for collaborations on wireless positioning technology.
2015.08: Project "Research on Connectivity and Capacity of the Internet of Things in Complex Environments" funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
2015.03: WCD successfully tested in Sheshan Mountain, Shanghai.
2015.01: The Through-the-Earth communication system was awarded the 1st Prize in the 16th China International Industry Fair (CIIF) 2014.
2014.12: Mr. Tony Ma (Director) and Dr. Qingshan Zhang (Principal Engineer) from Harman Group China visited the Lab. for collaborations on V2V localization technologies, and also tested our android-based DWELT localization algorithm.
2014.10: Prof. Erwu Liu served as an editor for the KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems.
2014.10: Dr. Rui Wang joined the Lab. as Assistant Professor.
2014.09: Dr. Gang Shen (Director @ Wireless Infrastructure Dept., Bell-labs China) visited the School.
2014.02: Prof. Erwu Liu was elected as an IET Fellow.
2014.01: Dr. Feifei Gao (Associate Professor @ Tsinghua University, China) visited the School.
2013.04: Dr. Yan Zhang (Senior Research Scientist @ Simula, Associate Professor @ Oslo University, Norway) visited the School.
2013.04: Dr. Zhiguo Ding (Reader @ Newcastle University, UK) visited the School.
2012.12: The WCD system was successfully tested in underground mines, Datong, China.
2012.10: Prof. Kelsie Dadd and Dr. Gengfa Fang (Macquarie University, Australia) visited the School.
2012.06: Dr. Gengfa Fang (Lecturer, Macquarie University, Australia) visited the Lab.
2012.04: Mr. Kimmo Pentikainen (director, ELISA) and Prof. Matti Hamalainen (director, TIVIT) visited the Lab.
2012.02: Prof. Erwu Liu was elected as an ACM senior member.
2011.09: Prof. Erwu Liu served as an associate editor for the IEEE Communications Letters.
2011.05: Prof. Erwu Liu was elected as an IEEE senior member.
2011.03: Prof. Erwu Liu left Imperial College London, and joined Tongji University as full professor.
2019.12: Prof. Erwu Liu was appointed the Founding Editor-in-Chief of IET Blockchain.
2019.11: Develop the Indoor Navigation System for the 2nd China International Import Exhibition (CIIE).
2019.04: Speech at "Empower Information Accessibility with AI" Workshop, United Nations' WSIS Forum
2018.12: Launch the IEEE Shenzhen Blockchain Group and IEEE Hangzhou Blockchain Group, led by Tencent and Ant Financial respectively.
2018.11: Develop the Indoor Navigation System for the 1st China International Import Exhibition (CIIE)
2018.10: China College Students' "Internet+" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (1st Prize)
2018.07: Launch the Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Intelligence (AIBI) Lab.
2018.07: Launch the IEEE Blockchain Shanghai Group. Prof. Erwu Liu is the Chair.
2018.07: Meet with IEEE Blockchain Co-Chairs Dr. Ramesh Ramadoss and Prof. Chunming Rong.
2018.07: Meet with Dr. Whitfield Diffie (ACM Turing Award Winner).
2018.07: Provide indoor positioning and navigation for the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China in CIIE.
2018.07: Provid indoor positioning and navigation for 150+ public places in HK.
2018.07: Provide indoor positioning and navigation for National Stadium - Bird's Nest.
2018.06: Provid indoor positioning and navigation for the China International Import Exhibition (CIIE).
2018.06: Provide indoor positioning and navigation for the National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC).
2018.06: Sign agreement with Cambridge University Press to publish the book “Magnetic Communications”.
2018.06: CFP--Blockchain Technology and Applications.
2018.05: Visit National Stadium - Bird's Nest.
2018.05: Visit National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC).
2018.04: Prof. Erwu Liu served as an associate editor of IEEE Access.
2018.04: Win the Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition 2018, once again after 2016.
2018.04: Serve as a Committee Member of CCF (China Computer Federation) Blockchain.
2018.03: Serve as a guest editor of Special Issue on Blockchain for the IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.
2018.01: Lead the development of IEEE Blockchain Initiative in China.
2018.01: Serve as member/voting member of IEEE P2418 Blockchain Working Group.
2018.01: Serve as Tongji's Key Contact and Representative to IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA)
2018.01: Speech at ShanghaiTech University and Shanghai Institute of Fog Computing Technology (SHIFT).
2017.12: Intelligent Interconnect Joint Lab (with ARM) launched.
2017:12: Serve as the Lead Guest Editor of Special Issue on Blockchain for China Communications (guest editor team: Erwu Liu@Tongji, Alex Pentland@MIT, Greg Adamson@Melbourne, Wei-Tek Tsai@BeiHang, Yunlei Zhao@Fudan).
2016.12: Prof. Erwu Liu was elected as Distinguished Member of the CCF.
2016.12: Dr. Rui Wang was promoted to Associate Professor.
2016.11: Serve as an editor for China Communications.
2016.11: Speech at IEEE UPINLBS 2016.
2016.11: DWELT technology won the Silver Innovation Award at CIIF 2016.
2016.10: Keynote speech at WGDC City Summit (Big Data and Smart Cities).
2016.09: Keynote speech at International UAS CHINA 2016.
2016.06: Strategic agreement with National Exhibition Convention Center (NECC).
2016.05: Visit Data Science Institute, and Prof. Kin Leung (Head of CSP) at Imperial College.
2016.05: Dr. Zhi Sun (Assistant Professor @SUNY) visited the Lab.
2016.05: Dr. Yan Zhang (IET Fellow, Head of Department of Networks @Simula, Norway) visited the Lab.
2016.05: Cambridge University Press invited to author a book entitled "Magnetic Communications--Theory and Applications".
2016.04: Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition (IPSN) 2016 (1st Place).
2016.02: Collaboration agreement with GuangDong Water on smart water resource.
2015.11: Exhibit DWELT indoor localization in the 17th China International Industry Fair (CIIF) 2015.
2015.09: Ericsson (Shanghai) Corp. visited the Lab. for collaborations on wireless positioning technology.
2015.08: Project "Research on Connectivity and Capacity of the Internet of Things in Complex Environments" funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
2015.03: WCD successfully tested in Sheshan Mountain, Shanghai.
2015.01: The Through-the-Earth communication system was awarded the 1st Prize in the 16th China International Industry Fair (CIIF) 2014.
2014.12: Mr. Tony Ma (Director) and Dr. Qingshan Zhang (Principal Engineer) from Harman Group China visited the Lab. for collaborations on V2V localization technologies, and also tested our android-based DWELT localization algorithm.
2014.10: Prof. Erwu Liu served as an editor for the KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems.
2014.10: Dr. Rui Wang joined the Lab. as Assistant Professor.
2014.09: Dr. Gang Shen (Director @ Wireless Infrastructure Dept., Bell-labs China) visited the School.
2014.02: Prof. Erwu Liu was elected as an IET Fellow.
2014.01: Dr. Feifei Gao (Associate Professor @ Tsinghua University, China) visited the School.
2013.04: Dr. Yan Zhang (Senior Research Scientist @ Simula, Associate Professor @ Oslo University, Norway) visited the School.
2013.04: Dr. Zhiguo Ding (Reader @ Newcastle University, UK) visited the School.
2012.12: The WCD system was successfully tested in underground mines, Datong, China.
2012.10: Prof. Kelsie Dadd and Dr. Gengfa Fang (Macquarie University, Australia) visited the School.
2012.06: Dr. Gengfa Fang (Lecturer, Macquarie University, Australia) visited the Lab.
2012.04: Mr. Kimmo Pentikainen (director, ELISA) and Prof. Matti Hamalainen (director, TIVIT) visited the Lab.
2012.02: Prof. Erwu Liu was elected as an ACM senior member.
2011.09: Prof. Erwu Liu served as an associate editor for the IEEE Communications Letters.
2011.05: Prof. Erwu Liu was elected as an IEEE senior member.
2011.03: Prof. Erwu Liu left Imperial College London, and joined Tongji University as full professor.
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Professor Erwu Liu received the Ph.D. degree in 2001, from the Department of Opto-Electronic Engineering/State Key Lab. of Laser Technology, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, CHINA.
From 2001 to 2003, he was with the Optical Network Division (OND) at Alcatel-Lucent as project manager and senior consultant, and then a senior research scientist at the Research & Innovation (R&I, Bell-Labs China) from 2003 to 2007.
In 2007, he left Alcatel-Lucent and joined Imperial College London as a post-doc research associate working on wireless, in Professor Kin Leung's group.
Since March 2011, he has been with Tongji University as a full professor at the School of Electronics and Information, working on Positioning, Blockchain, AI and Complex Networks, Blockchain and IoT. Research interests include: Indoor Localization, Blockchain, Machine Learning, Magnetic Communications, Through-the-Earth Communications, Complex Networks and Big Data, Wireless and IoT, etc.
His has won various awards including the Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition (1st Place), China International Industry Fair (1st Prize), China College Students' "Internet+" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (1st Prize), etc. He has developed the most-known indoor positioning systems in China, including the AR Positioning and Navigation System for the China International Import Exhibition (CIIE), National Stadium - Bird's Nest, National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC), etc. He also works on navigation systems for the visually impaired.
Prof. Liu is a regular reviewer for various journal and conferences, including IEEE Network, IEEE ACCESS, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE JSAC, IEEE Communications Letters, Elsevier Computer Networks, Springer Wireless Personal Communications, Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, OSA Optics Express, OSA Journal of Optical Networking, ETRI Journal, IEEE INFOCOM/ICC/GLOBECOM/WCNC/PIMRC/VTC/ICBC/SECON/WiMESH/QSHINE, etc. He has published 100+ papers, 40+ patents, and 9 standardization contributions.
He servces various journal as editor, such as founding editor-in-chief of IET Blockchain, associate editor of IEEEon the editorial board for various journals, including IEEE ACCESS/IEEE Communications Letters/China Communications/KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems.
He leads the local group development of the IEEE Blockchain Initiative in China, and helps launch the IEEE Blockchain Shanghai Group, Hangzhou Group, Shenzhen Group, and Beijing Group. He is the director of the Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Blockchain Applications And Services, and the chair of the IEEE Shanghai Blockchain Group. He is an IET Fellow, an ACM Senior Member, an IEEE Senior Member, and a CCF Distinguished Member.
His hobbies include: music, movie, pingpong, and tetris game.
From 2001 to 2003, he was with the Optical Network Division (OND) at Alcatel-Lucent as project manager and senior consultant, and then a senior research scientist at the Research & Innovation (R&I, Bell-Labs China) from 2003 to 2007.
In 2007, he left Alcatel-Lucent and joined Imperial College London as a post-doc research associate working on wireless, in Professor Kin Leung's group.
Since March 2011, he has been with Tongji University as a full professor at the School of Electronics and Information, working on Positioning, Blockchain, AI and Complex Networks, Blockchain and IoT. Research interests include: Indoor Localization, Blockchain, Machine Learning, Magnetic Communications, Through-the-Earth Communications, Complex Networks and Big Data, Wireless and IoT, etc.
His has won various awards including the Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition (1st Place), China International Industry Fair (1st Prize), China College Students' "Internet+" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (1st Prize), etc. He has developed the most-known indoor positioning systems in China, including the AR Positioning and Navigation System for the China International Import Exhibition (CIIE), National Stadium - Bird's Nest, National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC), etc. He also works on navigation systems for the visually impaired.
Prof. Liu is a regular reviewer for various journal and conferences, including IEEE Network, IEEE ACCESS, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE JSAC, IEEE Communications Letters, Elsevier Computer Networks, Springer Wireless Personal Communications, Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, OSA Optics Express, OSA Journal of Optical Networking, ETRI Journal, IEEE INFOCOM/ICC/GLOBECOM/WCNC/PIMRC/VTC/ICBC/SECON/WiMESH/QSHINE, etc. He has published 100+ papers, 40+ patents, and 9 standardization contributions.
He servces various journal as editor, such as founding editor-in-chief of IET Blockchain, associate editor of IEEEon the editorial board for various journals, including IEEE ACCESS/IEEE Communications Letters/China Communications/KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems.
He leads the local group development of the IEEE Blockchain Initiative in China, and helps launch the IEEE Blockchain Shanghai Group, Hangzhou Group, Shenzhen Group, and Beijing Group. He is the director of the Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Blockchain Applications And Services, and the chair of the IEEE Shanghai Blockchain Group. He is an IET Fellow, an ACM Senior Member, an IEEE Senior Member, and a CCF Distinguished Member.
His hobbies include: music, movie, pingpong, and tetris game.
