Cong Liu

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Department of Computer Engineering
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas


ECSS 4.211, UTD
Richardson, Texas
                         Phone: (972) 883-3572

I am passionate about designing and implementing timing-predictable, efficient, and safe autonomous embedded systems, with robotics and autonomous driving being the currently focused application domain. Recent research focus of our research group is on testing/detecting/mitigating vulnerabilities in DNN-driven autonomous driving systems and performing system-level optimization in such systems. Please note that I have moved to UC Riverside since summer 2022. This webpate thus will not be actively maintained (my UCR homepage can be found here).

I am interested in working with self-motivated students who strive for research excellence. In the past, students in our group have had excellent academic and industry job placements. If you are interested in my research and working with me, please include some samples of your work (e.g., major projects, open source contributions, etc.) when contacting me directly.

For current UTD students who are interested in working with me, please stop by my office so that we can discuss and see if there is a good match.




I received an Outstanding Teaching Award award from UT-Dallas in 2015.


  • CS 6396/CE 6308/EE 6308 Embedded and Real-Time Systems

  • CS 6378-004 Advanced Operating Systems

  • CS 6301-006 GPGPU Computing

  • CS 6301-008 Advanced Topics in Multicore Embedded Systems