Prof. Xin Liu received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering
from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, in 2002. She is a Professor of
computer science at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). Before
joining UC Davis, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate of the Coordinated
Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During
2012–2014, she took a leave of absence and was with Microsoft Research Asia.
Prof. Liu was a recipient of the Computer Networks Journal Best Paper of Year
Award in 2003 for her work on opportunistic scheduling, the NSF CAREER award
for her research on Smart-Radio-Technology-Enabled Opportunistic Spectrum
Utilization, in 2005, and the Outstanding Engineering Junior Faculty Award from
the College of Engineering, University of California, Davis in 2005. She became
a Chancellor’s Fellow in 2011. Her current research interests fall in the
general areas of machine learning algorithm development and machine learning
applications in human and animal healthcare, food systems, and communication
networks. Her research on networking includes cellular networks, cognitive
radio networks, wireless sensor networks, network information theory, network
security, and IoT systems.
Dr. John Olichney is a behavioral neurologist, dementia
specialist, and Neurology professor at the University of California, Davis. He
co-leads the UC Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center’s (ADRC) Clinical
Core, directs the Cognitive Electrophysiology and Neuroimaging (CEAN)
laboratory in the Center for Mind and Brain (CMB), and directs a fellowship on “Behavioral
Neurology and Neuropsychiatry in Neurodegeneration and Aging”. After receiving
his B.A. in Neurobiology at UC Berkeley, he earned his M.D. at UC Irvine.
Following his Residency in Neurology at UC San Diego, he completed
post-doctoral fellowships in Geriatric Neurology and Neurosciences &
Traumatic Brain Injuries at the San Diego Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center. His
research interests include the early diagnosis and pathophysiology of
neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Lewy body disease, and
the interactions between AD and vascular pathology. He also conducts clinical
trials and electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies of memory and language
processes and their disruption in higher cognitive disorders.
