Steve Liang
Founder And CSO at WG2 of ITU-T Focus Group on Data Processing and Management to support IoT and Smart Cities
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolSteve Liang is a founder, academic, and standards leader with 12+ years building interoperable IoT and sensor-web ecosystems from both product and policy angles. As Founder and CSO of SensorUp and a professor directing the GeoSensorWeb Lab at the University of Calgary, he bridges research, commercialization, and real-world deployments of the OGC SensorThings API used globally for applications from homeland security to environmental monitoring. He chairs and edits key international standards (OGC, ITU‑T) and currently leads development of EmissionML to enable transparent, measurement-based carbon accounting. Known for translating complex geospatial sensor science into pragmatic cloud-to-device APIs and products, he combines technical depth with standards diplomacy to drive adoption across industry and government. A former clarinetist turned technologist, he brings a rare mix of creativity, rigorous academic training (PhD in Earth and Space Science), and entrepreneurial experience to the challenge of a worldwide sensor web.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Surveying Engineering, B.Sc. Surveying Engineering at National Cheng Kung UniversityPh.D. Earth and Space Science, Ph.D. Earth and Space Science at York University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (53)
sensorthings10
specification10
ogc9
api9
parallel-processing6
iot6
sparql6
android6
wfs6
semantic-web6
mqtt6
geoserver6
semantics6
jena6
low-latency6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GeoSensorWebLab/geosensorweblab.github.io
Aug 2017 - Feb 2023
Website for GeoSensorWeb Lab
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes in 5 years 6 months
wcswpswfswmsgeospatial-analysis
OGC-IoT/ogc-iot-api
Sep 2013 - May 2016
Contributions:83 commits, 43 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 8 months
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