Students are an essential part of every research project in my laboratory. I believe students learn best by working on real-world engineering challenges that combine artificial intelligence, biomedical signal processing, healthcare, and innovation. Both undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to participate in interdisciplinary research, publish their work, and collaborate with clinical and industry partners.
Examples
Infant cry analysis
Respiratory sound classification
Smart stethoscope
Computer vision
Deep learning
Examples
Active Noise Control
Embedded AI
DSP
Edge computing
Examples
Medical devices
Clinical collaboration
Prototype development
Technology translation
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles Published/Accepted
L. Liu, Q. Su and C. Jiang, Duplex wireless communication integrated multi-channel active noise control system for ICU patient’s bed, https://doi.org/10.3397/1/37744, Noise Control Engineering Journal, Vol. 74, Issue 1, 2026
Liu L, Du L, Wu X. Adaptive Kalman Filter-Based Impulsive Noise Cancellation for Broadband Active Noise Control in Sensitive Environments. Acoustics. 2026; 8(1):1. https://doi.org/10.3390/acoustics8010001
Liu, Lichuan, Wei Li, Sherrill Morris, and Mutian Zhuang. "Knowledge-Based Features for Speech Analysis and Classification: Pronunciation Diagnoses" Electronics 12, no. 9, 2023: 2055. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12092055
Chung-Ying Ho, Lichuan Liu, Kuo-Kai Shyu, Sen M.Kuo Cheng-YuanChangc Time-division multiple reference approach for multiple-channel active noise control system, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Volume 495, 17 March 2021, 115922, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022460X20307616, (senior authorship and corresponding author)
Lichuan Liu, Lilin Du, Ajit Kolla and Sen M. Kuo, Wireless-communication integrated hybrid active noise control system for infant incubators: Improve health outcomes and bonding, Noise Control Engr. J. 67 (3), May-June 2019, pp. 168-179 (lead authorship)
L. Liu, W. Li, X. Wu and B. Zhou, ‘Infant Cry Language Analysis and Recognition: An Experimental Approach’, IEEE/CAA JOURNAL OF AUTOMATICA SINICA, VOL. 6, NO. 3, MAY 2019, pp. 778-788, Most Read Article (6000+ times viewed), article matrices 99, (lead authorship)
Lichuan Liu, Karunakar R. Pottim and Sen M. Kuo, “Ear Field Adaptive Noise Control for Snoring: A Real-time Experimental Approach”, IEEE CAA Journal of Automatic Sinica, VOL. 6, NO. 1, JANUARY 2019. Pp. 158-166, (lead authorship)
Lichuan Liu, Yang Li and Sen Kuo, “Feed-Forward Active Noise Control System Using Microphone Array”, IEEE CAA Journal of Automatic Sinica, Vol 5, No. 5, Sept. 2018, pp:946-952, (lead authorship)
Lichuan Liu, Xianwen Wu, “Real-time implementation of multi-channel active noise control systems for infant incubators”, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 137(4), DOI: 10.1121/1.4920234, pp. 2257-2257, (lead authorship)
L. Liu, K. Beemanpally and S. Kuo, “Application of Multi-channel Hybrid Active Noise Control Systems for Infant Incubators”, Noise Control Engineering Journal, Vol. 61, No. 2, March-April, 2013, pp.1-11, (lead authorship)
L. Liu and M. E, “Improve the positioning Accuracy for Wireless Sensor Nodes by Data Fusion”, International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems, Vol 16, No. 3, September 2011, pp 181-189, (lead authorship)
L. Liu, S. Kuo and K. Prakash, “An Audio Integrated Motorcycle Helmet”, Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control Journal, Vol 29, No 3, September 2010, pp 161-170, (lead authorship)
L. Liu, S. Kuo and K. Prakash, “Active Noise Control for Motorcycle Helmet”, International Journal on Signal Processing, No. 2, June 2010, pp 103-108, (lead authorship)
S. Kuo, L. Liu and S. Gujjula, “Development and Application of Audio-Integrated ANC System for Infant Incubators,” Noise Control Engineering Journal, Vol. 58, No. 2, Mar-April 2010, pp 163-175, (lead authorship)
Liu, S. Cujjula, P. Thanigai and S. Kuo, “Still in Womb: Intrauterine Acoustic Embedded Active Noise Control for Infant Incubator”, Advances in Acoustics and Vibration, Vol. 2008, Article ID 495317, pp. 1-9, (lead authorship)
Conference Papers and Presentations (30 papers are coauthored with graduate students)
1. Lichuan Liu, Mustafa Oztoprak, “Prosody-Driven Child-Robot Collaboration: A Cybernetic Approach”, to be appeared in 2026 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2026), Bellevue, WA, USA, October 4-7, 2026,
2. Lichuan Liu, Congzhi Bi and Reo Madda, Edge Computing based Multi-channel Active Noise Control System with Virtual-sensing Function for ICU Patient Bed, to be appear on 2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 17-20 October, 2021. Melbourne, Australia, (lead authorship)
3. Lichuan Liu; Wei Li; Chao Jiang, Applying Time-varying Features in Children Respiratory Recognition and Classification for Respiration System Diseases Screening, to be appear on 2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 17-20 October, 2021. Melbourne, Australia, (lead authorship)
4. Lichuan Liu, Qiang Su, Wei Li and Sen M. Kuo, Real Time Implementation and Experiments of Multi-channel Active Noise Control System for ICU, to be appear on 2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on ELECTRO/INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, May 14 - 15, 2021, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, (lead authorship)
5. Elliot Krueger and Lichuan Liu, A Dynamic Active Noise Control System for Live Music Attenuation, to be appear on Conferences on Artificial Intelligence; Publisher: Springer Nature, July 26-29, 2021; Las Vegas, (senior authorship and corresponding author)
6. Reo Maeda, Yoshnobu Kajikawa, Lichuan Liu, Congzhi Bi ‘Bed ANC System with AF-VS for Reducing the Noise in , IEICE, 3/3/2020, Okinawa, Japan, pp 285-288, (contribution 20%)
7. Yunlong Wang, Lichuan Liu, Yanghee Kim, ‘Vocal Signal Enhancement for Measurement of Child Robot Interaction’, IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology, Naperville, IL, August, 2020, pp 324-329
8. Congzhi Bi, Lichuan Liu, ‘Multi Channel ANC System with Virtual Sensing Approach for ICU Patient’s Bed’, to be appear on IEEE ELECTRO/INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, Naperville, IL, August, 2020, pp.313-318
9. Sachit Butail, Yanghee, Kim, Lichuan Liu, Michael Tschool, Yunlong Wang, ‘Measuring engagement in child-robot interaction Exploratory Analysis of Multimodal Collaborative Behaviors of Kindergartners’, to be appeared LAK’20, March 23–27, 2020, Frankfurt, Germany (contribution 20%)
11. Lichuan Liu ; Wei Li ; Chao Jiang, ‘Breath Sounds Recognition and Classification for Respiration System Diseases’ , IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2019, (lead authorship)
12. Lichuan Liu and Chao Jiang, 'Noise Reduction for ICU by Using Feedforward Active Noise Control System,” International Communication Conference, Kansas City, MO, May, 2018, pp.1-6, (lead authorship)
13. Lichuan Liu, Yang Li and Kevin Kuo, Feature Extraction and Recognition of Infant Cry Signals, appear on International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies, DeKalb, IL, March 2018, pp. 159-163, (lead authorship)
14. Lichuan Liu, Lilin Du and Ajit Kolla, Wireless Communication Integrated Hybrid Active Noise Control System for Infant Incubators, 2016 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB), Dec., 2016, Pittsburg, PA, Pages: 1 – 6, (lead authorship)
15. Lichuan Liu and Xianwen Wu, “Real-time Implementation of Multi-channel Active Noise Control Systems for Infant Incubators, 2015 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburg, PA, Dec., 2015, pp. 1-5, (lead authorship)
16. Satoru Hase, Yoshinobu Kajikawa, Lichuan Liu, Sen M. Kuo, “Multi-channel ANC System Using Automatically selected Reference Microphones Based on TDOA”, European Signal Processing Conference, Nice, France, Sept., 2015, pp. 305-309
17. Sen Kuo, Cheng-Yuan Chang, Karunakar Pottium and Lichuan Liu “Active Snore Control System Integrated with Apnea Detector”, InterNoise 2014, Melbourne, Australia, Nov., 2014, pp.1-7, (lead authorship)
18. Lichuan Liu, Yang Li, Yoshinobu Kajikawa and Sen M. Kuo, “Microphone Array Processing Technique for Feedforward Active Noise Control System,” Forum of European Acoustic Association, (FORUM ACUSTICU), Krakow, Poland, Sep., 2014, pp. 1-5, (lead authorship)
19. Lichuan Liu and Geetha Mavid, "Hybrid Localization Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks and its Application in Building Monitoring", IEEE International Conference on E-Service and Knowledge Management, Kitakyushu City, Japan, Aug. 31-Sept. 4, 2014, pp.97-102, (lead authorship)
20. Matthew Marshalek, Shannon K. Boi, Venumadhav Korampally, Sherine F. Elsawa, Lichuan Liu1, Martin Kocanda,Suma Rajashankar,Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb, “Novel Route towards Large Scale Synthesis of Bright, Water Dispersible Core-Shell Fluorescent Dye Doped Organosilicate Nanoparticles,” IEEE International Electro/Information Technology Conference, Milwaukee, WI, June, 2014, pp.562-566, (contribution 10%)
21. Martin Kocanda, Stewart Lipton, Shawn Oppegard, Sherine F. Elsawa, Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb, Lichuan Liu, Suma, Rajashankar, Venu Korampally, Anthony Roberts, Colin Fritz, "Structural Differentiation of Common Bacteria, Using Impedance Spectroscopy," IEEE International Electro/Information Technology Conference, Milwaukee, WI, June, 2014, pp.518-523 (contribution 20%)
22. Lichuan Liu and Kavitha Guntaka, “A non-iterative localization approach based on multi-dimensional scaling method for wireless sensor networks,” IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, April 7-9, Miami, FL, pp.328-333, (lead authorship)
23. Lichuan Liu and Geetha Mavidi, “An Hybrid Senor Localization Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Manchester, UK. Oct. 2013, pp.1087-1092, (lead authorship)
24. Lichuan Liu, Kevin Kuo and Sen M. Kuo, “Infant Cry Classification Integrated ANC System for Infant Incubators”, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, April 10-12, Paris, France, PP. 383-387. (Best Conference Paper Finalist) (lead authorship)
25. L. Liu, K. Beemanpally and S. Kuo, “Multi-channel Hybrid Active Noise Control System for Infant Incubators”, Internoise 2012 /ASME NCAD meeting, New York, NY, Aug., 2012, pp. 1-6, (lead authorship)
26. L. Liu, Kevin Kuo, “Active Noise Control Systems Integrated with Infant Cry Detection and Classification for Infant Incubators”, (invited) Acoustic 2012, HongKong, pp.1-6, (lead authorship)
27. L. Liu and M. E, “Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks by Combining TFDA and FMCW”, Proc. of IEEE ICMA 2010, August, 2010, Xi’an, China, pp. 945 – 950, (lead authorship)
28. L. Liu and M. E, “Improve the Positioning Accuracy for Wireless Sensor Nodes Based on TFDA and TFOA Using Data Fusion”, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Networking Sensing and Control (ICNSC), April, 2010, Chicago, IL, pp. 32 – 37, (lead authorship)
29. L. Liu, M. E. and M. Zhou, “A 3D Self-positioning Method for Wireless Sensor Nodes Based on Linear FMCW and TFDA”, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, San Antonio, TX, Oct., 2009, pp. 3069-3074, (lead authorship)
30. L. Liu, S. Kuo and S. Cujjula, “Development and Applications of Active Noise Control System for Infant Incubator”, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, San Antonio, TX, Oct., 2009, pp. 2738-2743, (lead authorship)
31. L. Liu, S. Cujjula, and S. Kuo, “Multi-channel Real Time Integrated Active Noise Control System for Infant Incubators”, Proc. of IEEE International Conference EMBC 09, pp 935-938, (lead authorship)