Dr. Chen Liu received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), Irvine, CA, USA, in 2008. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA. His research interests include processor architecture, hardware-software interaction, with specialization in using run-time hardware level information to model software behavior. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.