Chunmei Liu, Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Howard University
Washington, DC 20059
Office: (202) 865-0056
Email: chuliu AT howard.edu

Research Interests

• Computational Biology
• Algorithms
• Data Science
• Machine Learning
• Graph Theory
• Combinatorial Complexity

Selected Projects

• Data Science Training Core, NIH AIM-AHEAD, Co-I, 15M, 2021-2023.
• "Foundations of Data Science Institute", PI at Howard University, $285,000, 9/1/2020-8/31/2025.
• "Emerging Frontiers of the Science of Information", PI at Howard Univ., $1,050,000, 8/1/2010 - 7/31/2020.
• "Collaborative Research: Developing Course Modules to Teach Service-Oriented Programming through Visualization", NSF TUES, Co-PI, $199,997, 8/1/2012-7/31/2016.
• "A System Biology Approach for the Fusion of Data between Multiple OMICS Platforms and the Conversation of Minimal Information for Utility", John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, PI, $25,000, 7/14/2011 – 9/15/2011.
• "Protein Identification via Graph Algorithms", 2009 NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award, $400,000.

Teaching

• CSCI 432: Database Systems/Advanced Database Systems

• CSCI 341: Theory of Computation
• CSCI 572: Computability and Complexity
• CSCI 570: Advanced Algorithms

Recent Publications

• Yinglei Song, Junfeng Qu, Chunmei Liu, "Real-Time Registration of Remote Sensing Images with a Markov Chain Model", Journal of Real-Time Image Processing.
• Felix Olowononi*, Danda B. Rawat and Chunmei Liu, "Resilient Machine Learning for Networked Cyber Physical Systems: A Survey for Machine Learning Security to Securing Machine Learning for CPS", IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, November, 2020.
• Bimal Ghimire*,Danda B. Rawat, Chunmei Liu and Jiang Li, "Sharing Enabled Blockchain for Software-Defined Internet of Unmanned Vehicles in Battlefield", IEEE Network, 2020.
• Guoliang Li, Jinhong Sun, Mohammad Rana, Yinglei Song, Chunmei Liu and Zhi-yu Zhu, "Optimizing High-Dimensional Functions with an Efficient Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm", Mathematical Problems in Engineering ((7/2020).
• Ronald Doku*, Danda Rawat, Chunmei Liu, "On the Blockchain-Based Decentralized Data Sharing for Event Based Encryption to Combat Adversarial Attacks", IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (4/2020).
• Christian Diaz*, Chunmei Liu, "A Survey on Algorithms for Big Data Analysis in Electromagnetics Scattering Problems", The 13th International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications.
• Felix Olowononi*, Danda B. Rawat, and Chunmei Liu, "Federated Learning with Differential Privacy for resilient Vehicular Cyber Physical Systems", 2021 IEEE 18th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference(CCNC2021).
• Felix Olowononi*, Danda B. Rawat, and Chunmei Liu, "Trust-Based Adversarial Resiliency in Vehicular Cyber Physical Systems Using Reinforcement Learning", Proc. of the Eighth International Symposium on Security in Computing and Communications (SSCC'20), Oct 14 - 17, 2020, Chennai, India.
• Ronald Doku*, Danda B. Rawat and Chunmei Liu, "Towards Federated Learning Approach to Determine Data Relevance in Big Data", IEEE 20th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science, July 30 - August 1, 2019. Los Angeles, California, USA.
• Felix Olowononi*, Danda B. Rawat and C. Liu , "Dependable Adaptive Mobility in Vehicular Networks for Resilient Mobile Cyber Physical Systems", IEEE ICC 2020 Workshop on Secure and Dependable Software Defined Networking for Sustainable Smart Communities, 7-11 June 2020, Dublin, Ireland.