She received her Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science with Computer Science emphasis at University of Mississippi in 2005. Her research interests include software engineering with specific interests in software frameworks, software design patterns, and component-oriented software development; geospatial data processing; web development; and semantic web. Dr. Yi Liu has published over 30 research papers and served as the workshop/tutorial program chair in ACM SouthEast Conference 2010 as well as technical program committee member in Java PPPJ Conference 2006-2007 and in ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2016.