About the reviewer

Dr. Jie Liu received his Ph.D. from Oregon State University in 1993. He is now a full professor at Western Oregon University and has been working there for 31 years. Dr. Liu has taught a wide range of classes, such as Computer Organizations, Theory of Computation, Databases, Operating Systems, Introduction to Blockchain, and graduate-level Data Mining, just to name a few.

Beside teaching and research, Dr. Liu enjoys working as a consultant for the industry on big data and database-related projects. His recent projects involve DBMSes such as Amazon's Redshift, Google's BigQuery, and Snowflake.

Dr. Liu's research interests are in blockchain, big data and data mining, distributed systems, parallel processing, and software architecture.