Rate My Professor Huan Liu

Huan Liu is a Regents Professor and Ira A. Fulton Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at Arizona State University. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 1989 and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Prior to joining Arizona State University in 2000, where he received immediate tenure, Liu worked as a researcher at Telstra Research Laboratories in Melbourne, Australia, from 1989 and taught computer science at the National University of Singapore starting in 1994. Over his more than two decades at Arizona State University, he has directed the Data Mining and Machine Learning Laboratory and mentored 34 Ph.D. students, with 13 joining academia directly after graduation. His research centers on data mining, machine learning, feature selection, social computing, social media mining, and artificial intelligence, developing computational methods to tackle big data issues in areas such as health, social media, and disinformation detection. Liu holds seven patents stemming from his research at Arizona State University and has amassed over 125,000 citations with an h-index of 150.