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特聘講座
張韻詩 Jane W. S. Liu

Visiting Distinguished Research Fellow
Sc.D. EE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tel: +886-2-2788-3799 ext. 1807 Fax: +886-2-2782-4814
Email: janeliu@iis.sinica.edu.tw
http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/pages/janeliu

● Taiwan Linux Consortium, Linux Research Description
Golden Penguin Award (2009)
● Honor Medal, Taiwan Institute My research focus has been on theories, algorithms, architectures, and tools for building
of Information and Computing real-time and embedded systems. The past three decades have ushered in tremendous
Machinery (2008)
advances in the technologies needed to ensure predictable timing behavior, and enable
● Technical Achievement Award, rigorous validation of real-time systems built from commodity hardware and software
IEEE Computer Society, TC on
Real-Time Systems (2005) components. My students and I have contributed our fair share. Our results were used ex-
tensively in PERTS (Prototyping Environment for Real-Time Systems), a system of sched-
● Distinguished Visiting Research
Fellow, IIS, Academia Sinica ulers and tools that we built in the mid 90’s. PERTS puts important scheduling, resource
(2004+) management, and validation theorems and algorithms in a form ready for use by develop-
● William Bentor Honorary Chair ers to validate, simulate, and evaluate design alternatives for systems with critical timing
Professor, CS, National Tsing-Hua requirements. PERTS was distributed to numerous universities and research laboratories
University, (2004+) worldwide, and has since been enhanced and commercialized.
● Software Architect, OS Core
Technology, Windows, Microsoft
(2000-2004)
In the late 90’s, my students and I developed the underlying principle of open architec-
● Professor of Computer Science, ture for real-time applications. Many existing real-time techniques and standards assume
University of Illinois at Urbana- that the system is closed. To determine whether an application can meet its timing require-
Champaign , United States
(1981-2000) ments, one must analyze detailed timing attributes and resource usages of all applications
that share the platform. The need for detailed information prohibits independent devel-
● ScD, EE, Massachusetts Institute

of Technology (1968) opment of components and invariably limits the con gurability of real-time systems. Our
● M.S., EE, Massachusetts Institute open real-time system principle makes it possible to tune and validate the timing behavior
of Technology (1966) of a real-time component in an open environment, independently of other components
● B.S., EE, Cleveland State Univer- running on the same platform.
sity (1959)
● Fellow of IEEE
Since I joined the Institute in 2004, one of my objectives has been to advance the tech-

nology for building high-quality and a ordable human-centric automation and assistive
devices and services. Some of these devices are designed to enhance the quality of life
and self-reliance of their users, which include elderly individuals and people with chronic
conditions or functional limitations. Others are automation tools designed for improving
quality of care in hospitals. All of these devices are used at their users’ discretion, often for
the purpose of complementing and compensating for the users’ skills and weaknesses, re-

spectively. Such a device should be easy to use and easily con gurable, customizable, and
maintained. The device should be incapable of harm even when misused. A major thrust
of our research has been directed towards developing models, architecture, middleware,
and tools that support model- and component-based design, development, and quality
assurance of such devices and services. Results of this work and links to our open source
software prototypes can be found at the SISARL homepage http://sisarl.org.

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