Xiaodong Liu
Xiaodong Liu

Prof Xiaodong Liu

Professor

 0131 455 2747

  X.Liu@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Prof X. Liu received his PhD in Computer Science from De Montfort University and joined Napier in 1999. He is currently leading the Intelligence-Driven Software Engineering research group in the SCEBE, Edinburgh Napier University. He was the director of Centre for Information & Software Systems. Prof Liu is an active researcher in software engineering with internationally excellent reputation and leading expertise, focusing on its emerging themes including pervasive systems (Internet of Things), Cyber-Physical Systems, services-oriented architecture, evolution of cloud services, and intelligence-driven software engineering. He has meanwhile a successful track record of teaching in a number of software engineering courses which are widely informed by his research activities.

He has led 15 externally funded projects as the PI, and published over 180 papers in established international journals and conferences, 5 book chapters and 3 research handbooks. He is the inventor of 1 patent registered in UK and USA and the founder of a spin-out company. He has been the chair, co-chair or PC member of a number of IEEE and ACM International Conferences. He is the editorial board member of 4 international journals, associate editor for 2 international journals, and editor of 3 research books and 5 journals special issues. He is a senior member of IEEE Society and a member of British Computer Society.

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Joined the IoT Sensors Advisory Committee, which is run by IEEE Standards Association, in January 2024
  • Scientific Committee Member of the annual International Conference on Business Informatics and Modelling (IC-BIM), supported by ORACLE and ANYLOGIC
  • Invited reviewer by Scottish Enterprise on Research into support for the Technology and Engineering Sector
  • Member of Advisory Board of International Journal of Software Reuse (e-journal by vrlSoft)
  • Membership of National and International Industry Associations, including ScotlandIS, Global Scots Networks and Microsoft Visual Studios Partner Networks
  • Elected to IASTED Technical Committee on Software Engineering

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • General Chair of International Conference on Electronic Engineering and Information Systems (EEISS 2025), Nanjing, China, 25-28 April 2025
  • Programme Committee Chair of the 9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Control Technologies (AIACT 2025), Sapporo, Japan, February 10 - 14, 2025
  • Invited Technical Committee Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Robotics, (ICICR 2025), Dalian, China, May 16-18, 2025
  • Programme Chair of the 7th International Conference on Software Engineering and Development (ICSED 2025), Bangkok, Thailand, May 20-22, 2025
  • Conference General Chair of the 8th International Conference on Information Science and Systems (ICISS 2025), Oxford, UK, September 14-16, 2025
  • Program Chair of the 3rd International Conference on Communications, Computing and Artificial Intelligence (CCCAI 2025), June 20-22, 2025, Xi'an, China
  • Programme Committee Chair for the 7th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Technologies (AIAAT 2024), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 26-28, 2024.
  • Organisation Committee Chair of the International Conference on Communication, Information and Digital Technologies (ICCIDT2024), Wuhan, China, March 8-10, 2024.
  • Programme Committee Chair of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Control Technologies (AIACT 2024), Phuket, Thailand, Feb. 29 to Mar. 2, 2024.
  • Technical Committee Chair for the International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Robotics (ICICR 2024), Dalian, China, 12-14 April, 2024.
  • General Chair of the 14th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks (CENet 2024), Kashi, China, October 2024,
  • Programme Chair of the 5th International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT 2024), May 24-26, 2024 , Tokyo, Japan.
  • General chair for the 7th International Conference on Information Science and System (ICISS 2024), Edinburgh, UK, August 2024
  • Honorary General Chair of the International Conference on Electronic Engineering and Information Systems (EEISS 2023). December 15-17, 2023, Changsha, China.
  • General Chair of the 13th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks (CENet 2023), Wuxi, China, November 2023
  • General co-chair of the International Conference on Big Data, Computational Intelligence and Applications (BDCIA 2023), Huanggang, China, November 2023
  • Publicity Chair of the 6th International Conference on Algorithms, Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ACAI 2023), Sanya, China, December 22-24, 2023.
  • Conference General Co-Chair of the 6th International Conference on Information Science and Systems (ICISS 2023), Edinburgh, UK, August 11-13, 2023
  • Programme Chair for the International Conference on Data Mining, Computing and Software Engineering (DMCSE 2023), Chengdu, China, November 17-19, 2023
  • General Chair of the International Conference on Computational Science and Application (CSA 2022), Changsha, China, January, 2022.
  • Program Chair for 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Technologies (AIAAT 2022), Qingdao, China, August 2022.
  • Conference Chair of the 5th International Conference on Information Science and Systems (ICISS'2022), Beijing, China, September, 2022.
  • Conference Editor of the 10th Annual International Conference on Geo-Spatial Knowledge and Intelligence (GSKI 2022), Wuhan, China, 16-18 December 2022.
  • Programme Chair of 2nd International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT 2021) , Beijing, China, May 2021
  • Programme Chair of the 11th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks (CENet2021), Hechi, China, October 2021
  • Local chair of the 4th International Conference on Information Science and Systems ( ICISS 2021) and the 2nd Communication Technologies and Cloud Computing Conference (CTCCC 2021), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, March, 2021
  • Program Chair of the 4th International Conference on Algorithms, Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ACAI 2021), Sanya, China, December 2021.
  • Conference Editor of the 9th Annual International Conference on Geo-Spatial Knowledge and Intelligence (GSKI2021), December, online, 2021.
  • Programme Chair for the International Conference on Innovative Systems for Digital Economy (ISDE’2021), July 2021, Online by Springer.
  • Programme Chair of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems (ICCCS 2021) and its alongside conference-2021 2nd International Conference on Information Technology and Internet of Things (ITIOT2021), Chengdu, China, April 2021.
  • Programme co-chair for ITIOT2020, the International Conference on Information Technology and Internet of Thing, Shanghai, China, July 17-19, 2020
  • Programme Chair the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems and Engineering (ICAISE 2020), Cairo, Egypt, August 2020.
  • Programme chair for the 3rd International Conference on Information Science and System (ICISS 2020), Cambridge University, UK, March 2020
  • Programme Chair of the 10th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks (CENet2020) , Xi'an, China, October 16-18, 2020
  • Program chair of 2020 International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT 2020), Sanya, China, April 24-26, 2020.
  • Program Chair of the 3rd International Conference on Algorithms, Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ACAI 2020), Sanya, China, December 2020
  • Invited member of the Programme Committee of the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Software and Applications (COMPSAC'19)
  • PC Chair of the 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Nodes, Security and Resilience in Cyber Physical Systems, at the 5th IEEE Smart World Congress (SmartWorld 2019), Leicester, UK, June 2019
  • Invited PC member of 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2019), 2019
  • General Chair of the 13th IEEE International Workshop of Quality Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS'19), July 2019, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  • Programme Chair of CENET 2019, the 9th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks, Changsha, Oct 2019
  • Invited PC member of Cloud Computing 2019, The Tenth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization, 2019
  • Invited PC member of SERVICE COMPUTATION 2019, The 11th International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing, 2019
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2019)
  • Invited PC member of SERVICE COMPUTATION 2018, The Tenth International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing, February 2018 - Barcelona, Spain
  • General chair of, organising the 12th IEEE International Workshop of Quality Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS'18), to be held in Tokyo, Japan, July 2018
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2018).
  • Invited PC member of Cloud Computing 2018, The Ninth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization, February 2018 - Barcelona, Spain
  • Invited PC member of 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2018), Portugal, March 2018
  • Invited member of the Programme Committee of the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Software and Applications (COMPSAC'18)
  • General chair of, organising the 11th IEEE International Workshop of Quality Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS'17), to be held in Torino, Italy, July 2017
  • PC member of 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Grids and Virtualization, 2017
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2017).
  • Conference Editor (Programme Chair) for the 4th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Applications (CSA’17), Beijing, China
  • Member of the Steering Committee of 41st IEEE International Conference on Computers, Software and Applications (COMPSAC'2017), to be held at Torino, Italy, in July 2017
  • PC member of International Conference of Internet of Things for the Global Community (IoTGC), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 2017
  • PC member of 9th International Conference on Advanced Service Computing, 2017
  • PC member of 13th IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2016)
  • Programme Co-chair of the COMPSAC Symposium on Software Engineering Technology and Applications (SETA'16), Atlanta, USA, June 2016.
  • Track Chair for the track "Software Engineering, Semantics and Ontologies for Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems", at the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2016), Sept 2016, Czech Republic.
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization (CLOUD COMPUTING 2016)
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2016).
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 5th International Conference on Emerging Internetworking, Data & Web Technologies, Kazan, Russia, May 2016.
  • General chair, organising the 10th IEEE International Workshop of Quality Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS'16), Atlanta, USA, June 2016
  • PC member of 3rd Asia-Pacific Requirements Engineering Symposium (APRES 2016)
  • Invited to join the programme committee of the 3rd International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S 2015)
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 12th International Conference on E-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2015).
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 39th International Conference - COMPSAC 2015.
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 5th International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainCom 2015), Chengdu China, December 2015.
  • PC member of Asia Pacific Requirements Engineering Symposium (APRES 2015)
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2015).
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization (CLOUD COMPUTING 2015)
  • General chair, organising the 9th IEEE International Workshop of Quality Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS'15), July 2015
  • PC Chair for ICSAI 2014 sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.
  • Invited PC member for International Conference on P2P,Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (PGCIC 2014)
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2014).
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2014)
  • General chair, organising the 8th IEEE International Workshop of Quality Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS'14), July 2014, Vasteras, Sweden
  • PC member of 6th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS’‘14)
  • Invited PC member of (International Conference on Advanced Networking, Distributed Systems and Applications 2014
  • Invited PC member of 11th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, 2014
  • Invited to be the PC member and track chair for the 38th IEEE International Computers, Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC'14)
  • Invited PC member of the 7th International Conference of Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE'13)
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 37th International Conference - COMPSAC 2013. URL: http://compsac.cs.iastate.edu/
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2013)
  • PC member of 5th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS’13)
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2013).
  • General chair of the 7th IEEE International Workshop of Quality Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS'13), July 2013, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Invited PC member of 4th International Workshop on Process Model Collections: Management and Reuse (PMC-RM 2013)
  • Program Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Systems and Informatics
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 36th International Conference - COMPSAC 2012: Trustworthy Software Systems for the Digital Society.
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2012).
  • General chair, organised the 6th IEEE international workshop of Quality Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS'12), July 2012, at Izmir, Turkey.
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2011).
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 6th International Conference of Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE’11).
  • Invited PC member of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Secure Software Integration and Reliability Improvement (SSIRI’11)
  • Invited member of the programme committee of the 35th IEEE International Conference of Computer Software and Applications (COMPSAC'11).
  • General chair the 5th IEEE Workshop on Quality-Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS'11) at Munich, Germany.
  • Invited member of the Programme Committee of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2010)
  • Invited member of the Programme Committee of the 34th IEEE International Conference on Computer Software and Applications (COMPSAC'2010)
  • General chair, organising the 4th IEEE international workshop of Quality Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS'10), Soeul, Korea.
  • Invited member of the Programme Committee of the 33rd International Conference on Computer Software and Applications (COMPSAC'09)
  • Invited member of the Programme Committee of the 21st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'09)
  • General chair of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Quality-Oriented Reuse of Software (QUORS'09), Seattle, USA,
  • Invited PC member of 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2009)
  • Invited member of the Programme Committee of the 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'08)
  • Invited member of the Programme Committee of the 32nd International Conference on Computer Software and Applications (COMPSAC'08), Finland.
  • PC Chair of the IEEE 1st International Workshop of Barriers towards INternet-Driven Information Services (BINDIS 2008)
  • General chair of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Quality-Oriented Reuse (QUORS'08), Finland.
  • Invited member of the Programme Committee of the 31st International Conference on Computer Software and Applications (COMPSAC'07)
  • Invited PC member of IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA’07)
  • General chair of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Quality-Oriented Reuse (QUORS'07), Beijingm China.
  • Invited PC member of IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA’06)
  • Invited member of the Programme Committee of the 30st International Conference on Computer Software and Applications (COMPSAC'06)
  • Invited PC memberIASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA'05)
  • Organisation Co-Chair of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Computer Software and Applications (COMPSAC’05), Edinburgh, UK, 2005
  • Invited PC member of IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA’04)

 

Editorial Activity

  • Guest Editor for Special Issue "Industrial Internet of Things in Industry 5.0", Journal of Internet Technology Letters - Wiley publisher, Dec 2024 to August 2025
  • Guest Editor of the special issue "Industrial Applications of IoT and Blockchain for Sustainable Environment" in Big Data and Cognitive Computing, ISSN 2504-2289, 2024.
  • Guest Editor of the special issue "Efficient Scalable Computing based on IoT and Cloud Computing" in the Jourmal of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, 2024
  • Editor of the Special Issue on Intelligent Models for Security and Resilience in Cyber Physical Systems, Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences (CMEC), Vol 131, No. 1, 2022.
  • Editor of Special Issue on Intelligent Algorithm Design and Analysis in Networked Systems, Information (Journal), MDPI, 2021-2022
  • Conference Editor for the 8th Annual 2020 Internaonal Conference on Geo-Spatial Knowledge and Intelligence (GSKI2020), Xi'an, China, Dec 2020
  • Associate Editor of the Computer Modeling in Engineering & Science 2019-2024, Tech Science Press
  • Editorial board member of Internet of Things and Cloud Computing, Science Publishing Group, 2019
  • Guest Editor of Elsevier's Journal of Systems and Software, for its Special Issue on Software Engineering Technology and Applications, 2016-2017
  • Chief editor of the research handbook on Green ICT Services Engineering, Optimization, and Modelling in the Technological Age, IGI Global Publisher, 2015.
  • Chief editor of the Research Handbook "Software Reuse in Cloud Computing Era", IGI Globle Publisher.
  • Guest editor of a special issue "software evolution in cloud era" for the Journal of Computers.
  • Chief editor of the research handbook by IGI Global publisher, "Advanced Design Approaches to Emerging Software Systems: Principles, Methodology and Tools"
  • Member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Computer and Software Engineering ISSN 2153-8395, Graphy Publications.
  • Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Computers (JCP, ISSN 1796-203), Academy Publisher.
  • Editorial board member of Journal of Software
  • Member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Software Architecture (Online) ISSN 2153-8409; (CD-ROM) ISSN 2153-8425

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • 2021 winner of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society Chester Sall Award for the First Place Transactions Award for best paper in the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics: “Low-Complexity Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Using Unsupervised Learning and Generalized Appliance Models” Qi Liu Kondwani Michael Kamoto Xiaodong Liu Mingxu Sun Nigel Linge, Transactions on Consumer Electronics, volume 65(1), Feb. 2019
  • Springer's IJAC Outstanding Reviewers Award in 2017
  • The FlexiCAGE project and its spin-out won "Highly Commended" award of IET Innovation Awards for Edinburgh Napier University (as entry)
  • 9 best papers awards in established international conferences, e.g. in the 39th IFIP International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection, SEC 2024, International Conference on Advanced Software Engineering and Application (ASEA'09) and in the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security.

 

Grant Funding Panel Member

  • EPSRC Interview Panel for Artificial Intelligence hubs for real data and for scientific and engineering research

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Taiwan Central Academic Advisory Committee of Academia Sinica, invited award reviewer for the “2024 Academia Sinica Early-Career Investigator Research Achievement Award”
  • Invited grant reviewer by Natural Research Foundation of South Africa
  • Member of EPSRC Peer Review College, starting from September 2016
  • Horizon Europe and H2020 Grant Evaluator
  • Reviewer of EPSRC research funding council

 

Invited Speaker

  • Invited keynote speaker at the 3rd International Conference on Mechatronics and Intelligent Control (ICMIC2025), Changsha, Hubei, China, September 18-20, 2025
  • Invited Keynote Speaker of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Robotics (ICICR 2025), Dalian, China, May 16-18, 2025
  • Plenary Speech at the 3rd International Conference on Communications, Computing and Artificial Intelligence (CCCAI 2025), June 20-22, 2025, Xi'an, China
  • Keynote Speaker at the 2nd International Conference on Communication, Information and Digital Technologies (CIDT 2025), September 26-28, 2025, Singapore
  • Keynote Speech at the International Conference on Communication, Information and Digital Technologies (ICCIDT2024), Wuhan, China, March 8-10, 2024.
  • Keynote Speech for the International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Robotics (ICICR 2024), Dalian, China, 12 April, 2024
  • Keynote speech at the 5th International Conference on Telecommunications, Optics and Computer Science (TOCS 2024), Sanya, China, December 5-7, 2024
  • Keynote speaker at the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Environments (ICAISE’2024), 07-09 November 2024, Errachidia, Morocco
  • Invited research seminar on AI-driven Cyber Physical Systems, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, June 2024
  • Keynote speech at International Conference on Internet of Things and Intelligent Information Processing (IoTIIP 2024), Qingdao, China, July 12 - 14, 2024.
  • Keynote Speaker at the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Manufacturing (AIAM2024), Frankfurt, Germany, October 24-26, 2024
  • Keynote speech at the 2nd International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision and Machine Learning (ICICML 2023), Xi'An, China, October 27-29, 2023.
  • Keynote speech at the International Conference on Big Data, Computational Intelligence and Applications (BDCIA 2023), Huanggang, China, November 2023
  • Keynote speech at the 14th International Conference on Advanced Service Computing (SERVICE COMPUTATION 2022), Barcelona, Spain, April, 2022.
  • Keynote speech at the 12th International IEEE Conference on Dependable Systems, Services and Technologies (DESSERT 2022), Athens, Greece, December, 2022
  • Keynote speech at the International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Next Generation Networks (ICNGN2022), December 16-17, 2022, Hangzhou, China.
  • Invited keynote speech at the 2nd International Conference on Big Data Engineering and Education (BDEE), August 5-7, 2022, Chengdu, China.
  • Keynote speech at the 10th Annual International Conference on Geo-Spatial Knowledge and Intelligence (GSKI 2022), Wuhan, China, 16-18 December 2022.
  • Invited keynote speech at the 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Information Processing and Cloud Computing (AIIPCC2022), online, June 2022.
  • Keynote Speech at the International Conference on Computational Science and Application (CSA 2022), Changsha, China, Jan 15-16, 2022.
  • Plenary Speaker of the 4th International Conference on Algorithms, Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ACAI 2021), Sanya, China, December, 2021.
  • Invited keynote speaker in International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (ICAIA'21), Suzhou, China, October 2021
  • Plenary keynotes speaker for 2nd International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT 2021) , Beijing, China, May 2021,
  • Invited keynotes speech of the 9th Annual International Conference on Geo-Spatial Knowledge and Intelligence (GSKI2021), online, December, 2021.
  • Plenary Speaker at International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT 2020), Sanya, China, April 24-26, 2020.
  • Invited keynote talk at the 3rd International Conference on Information Science and System (ICISS 2020), Cambridge University, UK, March 2020
  • Invited keynote speech at the 5th International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems (ICCCS 2020), Shanghai, China, May 2020
  • Plenary Keynotes Speaker for the 3rd International Conference on Algorithms, Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ACAI 2020), Sanya, China, December 2020
  • Keynote Speech at the International Conference on Emerging Applications and Technologies for Industry 4.0 (EATI'2020) , Uyo, Nigeria, August 2020
  • Invited keynote speech for the 7th Annual 2019 International Conference on Geo-Spatial Knowledge and Intelligence (GSKI 2019), Guangzhou, China, Dec 2019
  • Research seminar on Cyber Physical Systems at Technische Universität Wien
  • Keynote speech at the 6th International Conference on Geo-Spatial Knowledge and Intelligence (GSKI), Wuhan, China, December 2018
  • Invited Keynote Speech at the 7th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks (CENet), Shanghai, China, July 2017
  • Invited Panellist on IEEE Young Professional Panel on Internet of Things
  • Key presenter and contributor at SICSA Honours Project Forum across Scotland universities
  • Research seminar on cloud migration to Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4) and School of Computing, Dublin City University
  • Keynote speaker at the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Service Science & Systems (SSS’13), Kyoto, Japan
  • Invited research seminar on green software architecture, School of Software, Tsinghua University, China
  • Presentation on international research collaboration at Royal Society Edinburgh to the delegates of RSE/NSFC collaboration visit including the President of RSE and the China NSFC Vice-President
  • Key presenter and contributor at SICSA Honours Project Forum across Scotland universities
  • Invited research seminar on context-active pervasive system to Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, China
  • Invited seminar on cloud architecture evolution, School of Computing, North China University of technology, Beijing

 

Media Activity

  • Invited expert to contribute to Help Shape the Future of Research Infrastructures, RICH Europe, the network of National Contact Points for Research Infrastructures, about the needs and challenges faced by stakeholders in the Horizon Europe Research Infrastructures Work Programme
  • Invited expert to contribute to the Made in Europe Partnership Working Programme 25-27 Open Consultation, June 2023.
  • EC Consultation on Motivation to Participate in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe - European Commission seeks to understand why research and innovation actors from non-EU Associated Countries participate in the Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe Framework Programmes
  • ETHNA Validation on Drivers and Barriers of Responsible Research & Innovation - to validate the findings of a multi-stakeholder consultation on what drives or hinders the adoption of responsible research (ethics, public engagement, etc.) at research-performing organisations.
  • Contributed to the Strategic Agenda for Artificial Intelligence, Data and Robotics of EU. The European Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, Data and Robotics are instrumental in elaborating a roadmap for AI in the Horizon Europe programme as well as mobilising the community.
  • Invited to participate in the consultation on the adequacy and attractiveness of funding provided by the EU under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions "CAR" project
  • Consultation to the European Commission in preparing the implementation of Horizon Europe, the next ambitious EU research and innovation programme (2021-2027)
  • Disseminating the CAR approach and building research networks at the EuroScience Open Forum, Toulouse, France, July 2018
  • Disseminating CAR project at 2018 MCAA (MARIE CURIE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION) Conference, University of Leuven, Belgium
  • Exhibition of Cognitive Internet of Everythings project at DemoFest 2017
  • Invited talk and show on CAR project at 2017 MCAA (MARIE CURIE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION) Conference, University of Salamanca, Spain, which looks for communication, social recognition and further academic exchange.
  • Exhibition at H2020's Explorthon 2017: Demonstration at Explorathon for public engagement of the CAR results - demo and slides prepared, exhibition done at the Whale Arts centre, Edinburgh, UK
  • Created a response report to the Horizon 2020 Consultation organised by the Scottish Funding Council’s Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee, covering the prioritization of the sustainable development goals, funding themes and call methods, and links with national funding.
  • Invited by the EU’s Director General of Directorate General for Research & Innovation, participated and contributed to the EU H2020 Beneficiary’s public stakeholder consultation in the context of the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020.
  • Invited and created an Evaluation Report to the EU MSCA consultation on the process, criteria, and future calls of Marie Skłodowska Curie actions in H2020.
  • Exhibition of OCSO prototype - Off-the-cloud service optimization for green efficient services, at DEMOfest, Glasgow.
  • 2 research handbooks edited by me have been selected by universities as textbooks by their libraries and course instructors, e.g., in Japan, Australia, USA and China.
  • Presentation on international joint research project "Modelling and Evolution of Service Architecture and Its Reliability in Clouds" at Royal Society Edinburgh to the delegates of RSE/NSFC collaboration visit including the President of RSE and the China NSFC Vice-President
  • Exhibition of TARGO prototype: Transition and Reallocation Based Green Optimization for Cloud VMs, at DEMOfest, Edinburgh.
  • Exhibition of APTO prototype: MDD-based Generic Framework for Context-aware Deeply Adaptive Services, at DEMOfest, Edinburgh.
  • External research seminars and talks on related projects work, delivered at Tsinghua University, Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4) and the Dublin City University, Beijing University of Technologies, and Yunnan University of Finance and Economics.
  • The spin-out Flexicage Ltd was featured as the drive to market for a technical breakthrough in efficient software development in the Insider Magazine: Scotland’s innovators (Scottish Business Insider, March 2010).
  • Flexicage is listed at http://www.spinoutsuk.co.uk/listings/company-listings/Default.aspx which is a major new survey and online database of UK university commercialisation.
  • Xiaodong won Exhibition at Connect Scotland to showcase FlexiCAGE work: prototype and IPs
  • Various exhibitions and seminars on FlexiCAGE tool and business at ConnectScotland, Angel Investment Networks (London), Informatics Ventures, and HUAWEI Corp.
  • The news of the initial Proof of Concept project “SAGA Bench” was presented to the press by Dr. Liu and appeared in Edinburgh Evening News.

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
  • IEEE Senior Member
  • Fellow of Higher Education Academy (HEA)
  • Member of SICSA, - the Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance
  • Member of the British Computer Society
  • Member of NESSI – Networked European Software & Services Initiative
  • Member of IEEE Computer Society

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Exhibition of Semantic IoT Data Model at DEMOfest, Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh, October 2019
  • Invited to attend the China (Jinan) Overseas High-level Talents Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and awarded the Third Prize from 96 contestants, Jinan, China, July 2018
  • Invited to attend and present the CAR work in EUrope Chinese MicroElectronics Forum (EUCME), Hangzhou, China, 16 November 2018
  • Poster and talks at the industrial event Hangzhou International Talent Exchange and Cooperation Conference, Hangzhou International Expo Centre, China, 10-12 November 2018
  • Visiting Itron collaborator at Ipswich UK, to disseminating CAR project results, June 2018
  • Demonstration of the CAR project prototype at the EU sponsored Explorathon for public engagement of the CAR results - Cafe Science, demo, poster and public talk, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK, 28 September 2018
  • Visiting British Telecom OpenReach at Cambridge, to disseminating CAR project results, June 2018
  • Exhibition of CAR project in DemoFest 2017, Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh, UK
  • Exhibition of MONGO (Mobile Cloud Green Architecture) at the SICSA and ScotlandIS co-event DEMOfest, Glasgow, November 2016.
  • Exhibition of GRAPE (Green Adaptive Pervasive Environment) at CENSIS the 3rd Technology Summit and Conference, Glasgow, October 2016.

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • External PhD examiner at Glasgow Caledonian University
  • PhD external examiner at Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, HARCOURT BUTLER TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, KANPUR, (U.P.) INDIA
  • External PhD examiner for National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India, 2024
  • PhD external examiner for Department of Information Technology at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa, 2024.
  • PhD external examiner for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Digital Technologies, University of Bradford, 2024
  • External PhD examiner for Durban University of Technology, South Africa
  • PhD external examiner for University of Huddersfield
  • PhD external examiner for University of Portsmouth
  • PhD external examiner for Leicester University
  • PhD external examiner at University of Portsmouth
  • PhD external examiner at University of Portsmouth
  • PhD external examiner at Bath Spa University
  • PhD external examination at Liverpool John Moores University
  • PhD examiner at Robert Gordon University
  • MPhil examination at Durban University of Technology, South Africa
  • PhD external examiner at De Montfort University
  • PhD external examiner at De Montfort University
  • PhD external examiner at University of Portsmouth.
  • PhD external examiner at De Montford University

 

Reviewing

  • Invited Reviewer by Pearson's senior commissioning editor, on book "Projects in Computing and Information Systems: A Student Guide" by Christian Dawson, 3rd edition
  • Regular Reviewer of International Journals: IEEE Computer Society’s Computer Journal, Elsevier’s Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier’s Future Generation Computer Systems, IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, IEEE Access, IEEE Trans on Software Engineering, IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

 

Spin-outs and Licences

  • In Nov 2008, Edinburgh Napier University successfully established a spin out company, FlexiCAGE Ltd, as the vehicle to commercialise a new component adaptation technology. The project had been developed with funding support from Scottish Enterprise under its Proof of Concept programme, followed by a further PRP grant. Based on successful diligence assessments, the project had been awarded a SMART Award and then a R&D grant from Scottish Enterprise, from 2009 to 2011. Xiaodong Liu was the director of FlexiCAGE Ltd and the PI of its precedent projects. Patents had been registered in the UK, USA and at International Level.

 

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Semantic-Driven Approach for Validation of IoT Streaming Data in Trustable Smart City Decision-Making and Monitoring Systems

Journal Article
Bamgboye, O., Liu, X., Cruickshank, P., & Liu, Q. (2025)
Semantic-Driven Approach for Validation of IoT Streaming Data in Trustable Smart City Decision-Making and Monitoring Systems. Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 9(4), Article 108. https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc9040108
Ensuring the trustworthiness of data used in real-time analytics remains a critical challenge in smart city monitoring and decision-making. This is because the traditional dat...

GSFL: A Privacy-Preserving Grouping-Split Federated Learning Approach in Resource-Constrained Edge Computing Scenarios

Journal Article
Liu, Q., Wang, Z., Zhou, X., Zhang, Y., Liu, X., & Lin, H. (online)
GSFL: A Privacy-Preserving Grouping-Split Federated Learning Approach in Resource-Constrained Edge Computing Scenarios. ACM transactions on autonomous and adaptive systems, https://doi.org/10.1145/3725221
The advancement of mobile multimedia communications, 5G, and Internet of Things (IoT) has led to the widespread use of edge devices, including sensors, smartphones, and wearab...

Scalable Machine Learning Architectures for IPA-Driven Maintenance Task Allocation in Large-Scale Building Portfolios

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Huang, Z., Liu, X., Romdhani, I., & Shih, C.-S. (2024, August)
Scalable Machine Learning Architectures for IPA-Driven Maintenance Task Allocation in Large-Scale Building Portfolios. Presented at The 7th International Conference on Information Science and Systems (ICISS 2024), Edinburgh, UK
This research presents a groundbreaking approach to Building Maintenance Management (BMM) by introducing an Intelligent Process Automation (IPA)-Driven Building Maintenance Ma...

Enhancing Automotive Intrusion Detection Systems with Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions-Based Memory Protection

Journal Article
Kalutharage, C. S., Mohan, S., Liu, X., & Chrysoulas, C. (2025)
Enhancing Automotive Intrusion Detection Systems with Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions-Based Memory Protection. Electronics, 14(3), 474. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14030474
The rapid integration of connected technologies in modern vehicles has introduced significant cybersecurity challenges, particularly in securing critical systems against advan...

Neurosymbolic learning and domain knowledge-driven explainable AI for enhanced IoT network attack detection and response

Journal Article
Kalutharage, C. S., Liu, X., & Chrysoulas, C. (2025)
Neurosymbolic learning and domain knowledge-driven explainable AI for enhanced IoT network attack detection and response. Computers and Security, 151, Article 104318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2025.104318
In the dynamic landscape of network security, where cyberattacks continuously evolve, robust and adaptive detection mechanisms are essential, particularly for safeguarding Int...

A Multi-Tier Offloading Optimization Strategy for Consumer Electronics in Vehicular Edge Computing

Journal Article
Lin, H., Xiao, B., Zhou, X., Zhang, Y., & Liu, X. (2025)
A Multi-Tier Offloading Optimization Strategy for Consumer Electronics in Vehicular Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, https://doi.org/10.1109/tce.2025.3527043
In the domain of consumer electronics, vehicular edge computing (VEC) technology is emerging as a novel data processing paradigm within vehicular networks. By sending tasks re...

FedCST: Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Resource-constrained Devices Using Clustering and Split Training

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Z., Lin, H., Liu, Q., Zhang, Y., & Liu, X. (2024, July)
FedCST: Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Resource-constrained Devices Using Clustering and Split Training. Presented at The 24th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security Companion (QRS-C), Cambridge, UK
With the rapid development of 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, edge devices such as sensors, smartphones, and wearable devices have become increasingly prevalent....

High Intensity Radar Echo Extrapolation Based on Stacked Generative Structure

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tao, S., Liu, Q., Zhang, Y., & Liu, X. (2024, July)
High Intensity Radar Echo Extrapolation Based on Stacked Generative Structure. Presented at 2024 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security Companion (QRS-C), Cambridge, UK
In recent years, the phenomenon of severe convective disaster weather has increased significantly in the world. Due to the characteristics of small spatial scale, short occurr...

A New Improved Method of Recurrent Memory Perception for Radar Echo Extrapolation

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ji, R., Liu, Q., Zhang, Y., & Liu, X. (2024, July)
A New Improved Method of Recurrent Memory Perception for Radar Echo Extrapolation. Presented at 2024 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security Companion (QRS-C), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Precipitation forecasting has long been a prominent topic in meteorology, as accurate predictions of impending rainfall are crucial for daily life and travel planning. Current...

Image Encryption Using Dynamic Salt Injection, Hybrid Chaotic Maps, and Dual Operation Substitution

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khattak, A. A., Babaagba, K., Liu, X., & Shah, S. A. (2024, August)
Image Encryption Using Dynamic Salt Injection, Hybrid Chaotic Maps, and Dual Operation Substitution. Presented at The 2024 International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC 2024), Sunderland, UK
In today's digital world, securing the multimedia data, especially images transmitted over unsecure networks, is critically important. In this paper, a novel chaos-based image...

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