Ji Liu

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Ji Liu received the B.S. degree in information engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, in 2013. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. His current research interests include distributed control and computation, multi-agent systems, social networks, epidemic networks, and power networks.

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  • 2008.09 - 2013.05
        电气工程
    耶鲁大学
  • 2006.09 - 2007.05
        电气工程
    耶鲁大学
  • 2002.09 - 2006.06
        信息工程
    上海交通大学

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Q : When applying for a postgraduate program in Electrical Engineering, what are the most important capabilities or skills our undergraduates should focus on?

A : Usually we start our applications in the final year of our undergraduate studies at which it is hard to improve our GPA, TOEFL, and GRE scores. Probably the most important capabilities or skills we should focus on when applying for a postgraduate program are English writing and communication skills. A polished resume and personal statement can enhance our application profiles by strengthening our strengths and compensating for our weaknesses, and leave the reviewers a good impression. From time to time, we need to contact faculty members in our target schools, which is particularly important for PhD applicants, and some schools will have phone and/or onsite interviews. In all such situations, our English communication skills play an important role. For PhD applicants, it is also very beneficial to get involved in some research project. The purpose of doing this is to learn how to read and/or write papers, and obtain some sense of research, which will be useful when writing a research statement and attending an interview.

Q : What is the difference do you think between the teaching methods in Electrical Engineering of China and the USA?

A : In China, we are required to take quite a few classes each semester. As a consequence, we spend a lot of time in the classroom, but the homework assignments are usually easy to finish. On the contrary, in the USA, a full-time student typically only enroll in 4 classes, and thus only spends about 10 hours per week in the classroom. But after class, the students have heavy homework loads and reading assignments, which pushes them to understand and digest the course material independently and deeply. In a word, the students in China learn more in class and the students in the UAS learn more after class.

Q : Briefly introduce your experience as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in UIUC?

A : Over the last couple of years at UIUC, I have been working on some fundamental problems and emerging topics in distributed control and network science, which are active research areas in the control systems community. My work has appeared in top journals and has been presented at top conferences in the control field. I also have expanded my research boundaries by collaborating with scholars in various fields and universities. In addition to my research, I have worked as an instructor for an undergraduate-level course in general engineering at UIUC. I have been working closely with undergraduate and graduate students in the Coordinated Science Lab. In particular, I co-mentored a senior undergraduate student, who presented our work at the 2015 American Control Conference and now is a PhD student at MIT.

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