Bede Liu
{{short description|Professor}}
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| name = Bede Liu
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| native_name = 刘必治
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1934}}
| birth_place = Shanghai, China
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| nationality =
| fields = Electrical engineering
| workplaces = Princeton University
| alma_mater = National Taiwan University (BS)
New York University (MS, PhD)
| thesis_title = Techniques of Network Approximation in the Time Domain{{MathGenealogy|27228}}
| thesis_year = 1960
| doctoral_advisor = John G. Truxal
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- Jan P. Allebach
- Charles Bouman
- George Cybenko
- Peter Franaszek
- Bob Kahn
- David C. Munson
- Min Wu
- Minerva Yeung
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Bede Liu ({{zh|s=刘必治|p=Liú Bìzhì}}; born 1934) is a Taiwanese-American engineer. He is a professor emeritus at Princeton University.{{cite web |url=http://www.ee.princeton.edu/content/bede-liu |title=Bede Liu | Electrical Engineering - Princeton University |publisher=Ee.princeton.edu |date= |accessdate=2016-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603140759/http://www.ee.princeton.edu/content/bede-liu |archive-date=2016-06-03 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.princeton.edu/~liu/Liu.php3 |title=Princeton University Electrical Engineering - Bede Liu |publisher=Princeton.edu |date=2000-10-25 |accessdate=2016-05-06}}{{cite web |url=http://engineering.missouri.edu/2011/11/mu-engineering-professor-named-ieee-fellow/ |title=MU engineering professor named IEEE fellow - Engineering | Engineering // Mizzou // University of Missouri |publisher=Engineering.missouri.edu |date=2011-11-30 |accessdate=2016-05-06 |archive-date=2020-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222134857/https://engineering.missouri.edu/2011/11/mu-engineering-professor-named-ieee-fellow/ |url-status=dead }}
Biography
He was born in Shanghai, China, in 1934. He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at National Taiwan University. He earned his master's degree and Ph.D. in 1956 and 1960, respectively, in electrical engineering, from what is now called the New York University Tandon School of Engineering.{{cite web|url=http://ethw.org/Oral-History:Bede_Liu |title=Oral-History:Bede Liu - Engineering and Technology History Wiki |publisher=Ethw.org |date= |accessdate=2016-05-06}}
Liu has received the IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing.{{cite web |author=Liu receives IEEE Fourier Award |url=http://ee.princeton.edu/news-tags/bede-liu |title=Bede Liu | Electrical Engineering - Princeton University |publisher=Ee.princeton.edu |date= |accessdate=2016-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603154319/http://ee.princeton.edu/news-tags/bede-liu |archive-date=2016-06-03 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/2016_ieee_tfa_recipients_and_citations_list.pdf |title=2016 IEEE Technical Field Award Recipients and Citations |website=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |access-date=2016-05-06 |archive-date=2016-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160327200528/http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/2016_ieee_tfa_recipients_and_citations_list.pdf |url-status=dead }} He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for contributions to the analysis and implementation of digital signal processing algorithms.{{cite web|url=http://www.nae.edu/30615.aspx |title=NAE Website - Dr. Bede Liu |publisher=Nae.edu |date= |accessdate=2016-05-06}} He was also elected a member of Academia Sinica in 2006.{{cite news |title=Bede Liu |url=https://academicians.sinica.edu.tw/index.php?r=academician-n%2Fshow&id=271&_lang=en |accessdate=15 October 2020 |agency=Academia Sinica}} He has a number of patents to his credits.{{cite web | url=http://patents.justia.com/inventor/bede-liu | title=Bede Liu Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search }}{{cite web|url=https://www.eff.org/press/releases/princeton-scientists-sue-over-squelched-research |title=| Electronic Frontier Foundation |publisher=Eff.org |date=2001-06-06 |accessdate=2016-05-06}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9216171 |title=NSF Award Search: Award#9216171 - Experimental Facilities for Application-Directed System Synthesis |publisher=Nsf.gov |date= |accessdate=2016-05-06}}
Liu's doctoral students include 2 members of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, 25 IEEE Fellows, 4 IEEE Millennium medalists.{{Cite web|title=Bede Liu {{!}} Dean of the Faculty|url=https://dof.princeton.edu/about/clerk-faculty/emeritus/bede-liu|access-date=2021-09-06|website=dof.princeton.edu|archive-date=2021-09-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906051335/https://dof.princeton.edu/about/clerk-faculty/emeritus/bede-liu|url-status=dead}}
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Category:Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Category:Engineers from Shanghai
Category:National Taiwan University alumni
Category:Princeton University faculty
Category:Chinese emigrants to the United States
Category:Taiwanese emigrants to the United States
Category:Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Category:Members of Academia Sinica
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