The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) has named Qilian Liang, a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington, as a fellow.
He is the fifth UTA faculty member to earn the honor, joining Ali Davoudi, Wei-Jen Lee and Frank Lewis, all from the Electrical Engineering Department, and Gautam Das of the Computer Science and Engineering Department.
“It is a great honor to be selected as an AAIA fellow,” Liang said. “I hope more colleagues from UTA will join this group.”
Liang’s research interests include sensor networks, wireless communications, wireless networks, signal processing for communications and artificial intelligence. In 2022, he received a three-year grant worth nearly $600,000 from the National Science Foundation to make the technology used with artificial intelligence faster and more energy efficient. He also is designing deep-learning hardware accelerators through devices, circuits and algorithms to create deep generative AI models with simpler design and architecture. The research is expected to generate orders of magnitude improvements in energy use and speed.
Liang is a fellow of IEEE and has published more than 350 journal and conference papers and seven book chapters. He has six U.S. patents pending.
AAIA is a worldwide academic, nonprofit and non-governmental organization. Its mission is to enhance the development and application of artificial intelligence through academic research, academic exchanges, science education, exhibitions, academic conferences, academic publications, summer/winter camps and other activities.
– Written by Jeremy Agor, College of Engineering
