Dan ( Xiang ) Liu

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About Me

I am from Beijing, a very crowded city in China. The picture on the right is the Great Wall which was built over 2000 years ago and has always been considered a symbol of China.

Now I'm a PhD student in the Database Group of Stanford University.

Education

I have been in the PhD program of Database Group of Stanford University since 1995.

From 1991 to 1995, I studied in Peking University where I finally got a B.S. degree from the Computer Science Department.

From 1990 to 1991 and in Xin Yang Military Academy, I spent a year there to obtain military training, which I believe was the most interesting experience in my life up until now. We planted vegetables such as cabbage, onion. Sometimes we stole vegestables from other teams, but I'm sure they did the same thing to us. We even raised pigs. Of course, we didn't just do farming.

I went to Beijing No.4 High School. That's a very good high school, very famous in Beijing. Now I have a lot of alumni in Stanford.

Junior high school and elementary school ...; I know you are getting bored. By the way, I first met my wife in our nursery. Of course we didn't get married quite soon.

Research

My current research interests are change maintenance and query subscription services for heterogeneous information sources. I'm working in C3 project. Jennifer Widom is my PhD advisor.

Fun

Badminton,

Volleyball,

Soccer,

Now Tennis !

Classical Music. I especially like works by Wagner and Bach, but not every piece.

Chat.

Science Fiction movies.

Travelling, when I have the money.

Repairing things. When I was a kid, I had a big box of parts of pens which I used to fix and reassemble other pens.

Family and Friends

My wife Janet.

We were in the same nursery and the same class in elementary school. It's really amazing for me to realize we have been known for so long. Sometimes I feel she's still the little girl who sat next to me in the second grade. Here are some pictures of her family, but Janet wasn't there.

My parents are both research scientists in China. They work for something similar to NASA.

My brothers, Liu Li and Liu Lun. Li got his PhD degree from the Management Science Division of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He works in Toronto now. Lun works for IBM in Beijing.

My grandma, who is 97 now.

Qingshan Luo and his wife Mayumi

James Ze Wang, a "lazy" boy and PhD student in the Medical School.

Tong Zhang, a PhD candidate in CSD Stanford

LiuLiu Lu, a PhD student on leave in Sociology Deparment. She loves telling horror stories.

Li Zhang, a CS PhD candidate, also a fencing master.

Jun Yang, my officemate, a PhD student in DB group, too.

Erming Zhou

Claire Cui

Lingxiu Dong, a PhD student in IEEM Stanford.

Xiaoming Huo

Contact Info

Gates 505
Stanford, CA 94305 
Tel: (650) 723-4214 (office)
FAX: (650) 725-2588 (office)
Email: danliu@cs.stanford.edu

last update: July 30, 1997