C.L. and Jane Liu Award

For CS students only
This award is for a graduate student showing exceptional research promise early in their graduate studies, who has passed qualifying exams. Established by AVANT! Corporation in honor of Professors C. L. (Dave) Liu and Jane W-S. Liu. Dave Liu is recognized as one of computer science’s most prominent educators. As a researcher, he is best known for developing the rate-monotonic scheduling algorithm (1973), the theoretical basis of modern methods and tools for predicting the timing behavior of multi-programmed real-time systems. Jane Liu is a renowned researcher in real-time systems. In 1993, she developed PERTS (Prototyping Environment for Real-Time Systems), a commercially successful system of analysis, validation, and simulation.

Award
$3,000
Deadline
Supplemental Questions
  1. Have you passed your qualifying exam?
  2. Please provide a single PDF containing your current CV and all graduate studies unofficial transcripts
  3. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and broadening participation in computing (BPC) are an important part of the UIUC CS mission. Please write a brief paragraph telling us how DEI figures into your past and present teaching, research, community engagement, and your lived experience? How do you imagine incorporating attention to DEI into your future work?
  4. To the best of my knowledge, I have not committed any action that violates the UIUC Student Code or the CS Department Values and Code of Conduct.