Prof. Steve Liang

Steve Liang is a researcher, teacher, and entrepreneur. Steve is currently a professor at the University of Calgary and funder of the the founder and CTO of SensorUp Inc, a Calgary Startup company. Steve’s goal is to disrupt the silos of the Internet of Things and to empower anyone to build connected applications by using the information generated from the world around them. For example, Steve is the editor of the Open Geospatial Consortium SensorThings API and the result of the standard work is to provide a uniform way to expose the full potential of the Internet of Things. Steve has been an invited speaker at universities and industries in 11 countries. In 2013, Steve was chosen as one of Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40 by Avenue Magazine. Steve held Rogers IoT Research Chair at University of Calgary, and the AITF-Microsoft Industry Research Chair on the Open Sensor Web from 2011 to 2014.