Liu Gang
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Born | 1989 Tiananmen Square protests | 30 January 1961
Title | Founder of Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Liú Gāng |
Liu Gang (born 30 January 1961) is a Chinese-born American aerospace engineer, computer scientist, optical physicist, political activist, and writer. He founded the
Student activist
As an undergraduate student at University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Liu met Fang Lizhi, a pro-democracy activist.[3] Then, at Peking University, Liu organized "Democracy Salons". Wang Dan later held a position there.
Liu was a 28-year-old graduate when the 1989 demonstrations began. He organized the Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation and joined the movement's organizing body. As a result, he was sixth on a list of twenty-one activists whose arrests were ordered by the government. Liu went into hiding as a fugitive, but on 15 June 1989, Liu was arrested and charged with attempted subversion of the Chinese Communist Party.[4] In 1991, he was convicted and sentenced to six years imprisonment at Qincheng Prison.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
After his release from prison in 1996, Liu continued to advocate for human rights in China and organized an underground democracy movement. [11][12] After moving to the United States, Liu continued his studies at Columbia University in New York City. [13][14][15] From there, he continued to support the Chinese democracy movement and in 2011, initiated further pro-democracy protests.[16]
Scientific research
China
In 1982, Liu received a bachelor's degree in modern mechanics from the
In 1984, Liu received a master's degree in optics from the Department of Physics at Peking University in Beijing. While there, he was an assistant teacher.[17] Liu returned to work at the China Soft Science Research Institute but was also acting assistant director at the University of Science and Technology of China.
In 1988, Liu became an assistant and associate researcher at the Wear-Resistant Materials Development Company of the National Ministry of Higher Education & the
United States
In 1996, Liu received a master's degree in computer science from Columbia University. He was invited to speak at the
Liu's areas of research included: SPIDER, a design tool for fast-restoration in all-optical networks; VPNStar, a system for provisioning multi-service
During his days at Bell Laboratories, Liu introduced the A*Prune (1999,
Liu also proposed a special class of Optical devices called SPIDER (2001,
References
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- ^ "From China's Prisons To Columbia's Computers". Columbia University. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ "Guilt by Association: More Documents from the Chinese Trials. News from Asia Watch. P.2" (PDF). News from Asia Watch. July 25, 1991. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ Nicholas D. Kristof (June 3, 2014). "China Arrests Another Student Leader". The New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ Sheryl WuDunn (January 24, 1991). "Democracy Leader on Trial in China". The New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ Sheryl WuDunn (February 7, 1991). "China Tries Another Student for Protests". The New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ Nicholas D. Kristof (September 1, 1992). "Imprisoned China Pro-Democrats Charge Torture". The New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ Nicholas D. Kristof (June 1, 1993). "A Gentler China: A special report.; 4 Years After Tiananmen, The Hard Line is Cracking". The New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ Tyler, Patrick E. (2 March 1994). "Chinese Government Shows Video Of 4 Prisoners Mentioned by U.S." The New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ "Chinese Said to Detain Dissidents as Parley Nears". The New York Times. August 10, 1995. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ Patrick E. Tyler (March 6, 1994). "Chinese Take Journalists on Guided Tour of Prison". The New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ "World News Briefs; China Releases Dissident After 6 Years in Prison". The New York Times. June 19, 1995. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ Steven Erlanger (May 4, 1996). "A Top Dissident Flees China And Is Admitted to the U.S." The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 16, 2011. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ Richard Bernstein (February 21, 1997). "Chinese Exiles Wonder How Wind Will Blow". The New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ "Liu Gang". Committee of Concerned Scientists. October 3, 1997. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ Kathianne Boniello (August 7, 2011). "Torment of Tiananmen". New York Post. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- ^ "Introduce of the China's 21 "Most Wanted" following Tiananmen Square Massacre". China Daily Mail. June 13, 2013. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
- ^ "Wang Dan Press Conference Statement". Human Rights in China. April 23, 1998. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ "Introduce of Gang Liu". Bell's Lab. Archived from the original on August 6, 2014. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ "Active Research Projects of Gang Liu". Bell's Lab. Archived from the original on 2014-08-06.
- ^ "A*Prune: An Algorithm for Finding K Shortest Paths Subject to Multiple Constraints". Research Gate. August 2001. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ Davis, R. Drew; Kumar, K.; Liu, Gang; Sanlee, Iraj (March 2000). "SPIDER: A Simple and Flexible Tool for Design and Provisioning of Protected Lightpaths in Optical Networks". Research Gate. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
External links
- Quatratic.com — A website solver for Convex Nonlinear Programming