ProfessorXiao Liu

• AI and Human in Software Engineering, Service Computing, Low-Altitude Economy (Smart Drone Services)
• Transnational Education Expert
• Building Strategic International and Industry Partnerships

Xiao Liu received his PhD degree in Software Engineering from the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia in 2011. He received his Master and Bachelor degrees from the School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, in 2007 and 2004 respectively, all in Information Management and Information System. He is currently a Professor and Leader of the Software Engineering Innovation Lab at School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Before that, he was an Associate Professor and Assistant to the Dean at the Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. His research areas include Software Engineering, Distributed Computing and Service Computing, with special interests in workflow systems, cloud and edge computing, smart drone services, and human-centric software engineering. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM, a Member of CCF and ACS.

Xiao has been included in the Stanford/Elsevier “World's Top 2% Scientists”, and “World’s Best Computer Science Scientists” by Research.com. According to Google Scholars, Xiao currently has about 7,800 citations with a h-index of 48. He has published over 300 papers in the areas of Software Engineering, Service Computing and Artificial Intelligence, including over 80 CORE A*/A or Q1 journals such as ACM ToSEM, IEEE TSE, IEEE TSC, IEEE TMC, IEEE TC, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TVCG, JSS and over 70 CORE A*/A conferences such as ICSE, ASE, CHI, IEEE VR, NeurNIPS, ICWS, ICSOC. 

Xiao has rich experiences in building industrial and international partnerships. When he was working at East China Normal University in Shanghai, he has established the teaching partnership with Microsoft in cloud computing, and the research partnership with Tencent in social recommendations. At Deakin, during his 7-year term (2018-2024) as the Associate Head of School (International), he has led the establishment of many international teaching and research partnerships which led to successful national and international competitive grants such as SPARC (India), NSFC (China), SMRP (Victoria) and KONEKSI (Australia-Indonesia), and joint PhD training programs with our global partners through university and government funded scholarships (e.g., China Scholarship Council programs).    

Xiao is currently the Area/Associate Editor for: Journal of Systems and Software, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, Automated Software Engineering, Human-Centric Intelligent Systems, Array

and a regular Senior/PC Member (Main Track) for: ICSE, ASE, ICWS, ICSOC, UbiComp/ISWC