Biography

Jun Liu received the B.S. degree in applied mathematics from Shanghai Jiao-Tong University in 2002, the M.S. degree in mathematics from Peking University in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from the University of Waterloo in 2011. Following an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Control and Dynamical Systems at Caltech, he became a Lecturer in Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield in 2012. He joined the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Waterloo in 2015, where he currently is a Professor of Applied Mathematics and directs the Hybrid Systems Laboratory. Dr. Liu's main research interests are in the theory and applications of hybrid systems and control, including rigorous computational methods for control design with applications in cyber-physical systems and robotics. He was awarded a Marie-Curie Career Integration Grant from the European Commission in 2013, a Canada Research Chair from the Government of Canada in 2017 and 2022, an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science in 2018, and an Early Career Award from the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences in 2020.  His best paper awards include the Zhang Si-Ying Outstanding Youth Paper Award and the Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems Paper Prize. Dr. Liu is a senior member of IEEE, a member of SIAM, and a lifetime member of CAIMS. He has served on the editorial boards and program committees of several journals and conferences, including Automatica, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, Systems & Control Letters, the ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), and the American Control Conference (ACC).