Ling Liu (born 1960)[1] is a Chinese-American computer scientist whose research involves databases, distributed systems for big data, and privacy and trust issues in peer-to-peer networks and cloud computing.
She is a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Computer Science.
[2] Liu completed a Ph.D. at Tilburg University in the Netherlands in 1993, with the dissertation A Formal Approach to Structure, Algebra, and Communication Behavior of Complex Objects supervised by Robert Meersman.
[4] At Georgia Tech, her doctoral students included Li Xiong (2005).
[3] Liu was a 2012 recipient of the Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Computer Society, "for pioneering contributions to novel internet data management and decentralized trust management".