Jian Liu is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at The University of Georgia, where he leads the Mobile Sensing and Intelligence Security (MoSIS) Lab. Before joining UGA, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His research interests span Trustworthy AI, Computational Sensing, Augmented/Mixed Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, and Intelligent Fitness Technologies. His research work has been published at top-tier mobile-computing/AI/security/HCI venues (e.g., S&P/Oakland, ACM CCS, ACM MobiCom, ICML, CVPR, AAAI, IJCAI, ECCV, ACM MobiSys, ACM SenSys, ACM UbiComp, and IEEE ICASSP) and has received regular media attention from outlets, such as BBC News, Yahoo News, MIT Technology Review, NBC New York, IEEE Spectrum, WCBS TV, and Voice of America TV, etc.
Dr. Liu has received multiple honors, including the IChemE Biochemical Engineering Award (2023), ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlights (2022), Best Paper Awards at IEEE SECON (2017) and IEEE CNS (2018), and the Professional Promise in Research and Creative Achievement Award at both the college and university levels at the University of Tennessee (2025). He has also been recognized as one of Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Most Cited Scientists. Additionally, he holds seven U.S. patents, two of which have been licensed to industry partners.
My research is passion-driven, always focused on real-world impact. Current directions:

Artwork Protection Against AI

Augmented and Extended Reality

Human-Centered Virtual Fitness

Trustworthy and Robust AI