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Jeffrey Liew is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology in the School of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University. He is a developmental and learning scientist, and has been nationally and internationally recognized for his expertise on social-emotional development and emotional self-regulation processes in early childhood to early adulthood. Liew is ranked among the World's Top 2% Scientists every year since 2020, according to data verified by Elsevier and Stanford University. A major strand of Liew's research focuses on individuals' resilience, thriving, and flourishing, including the risk and protective or promotive factors that are linked to developmental and academic or learning outcomes. Liew has been invited for keynote presentations internationally. He has also been invited for his expertise and served as a grant reviewer or as panel member for the National Institute of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Ministry of Education of Singapore, and the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong. Dr. Liew is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Psychological Association (APA) for outstanding contributions and national impact in the field of psychology, and he has authored more than 100 scholarly publications with much of his work funded by state, federal, or foundation grants, including the NIH and the NSF. Liew has served in multiple leadership positions, including the Associate Dean for Research in his School and Interim Head for his Department. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Early Education and Development and Co-Editor of the Section on Social Emotional Learning in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Education.

education and training
selected publications
Academic Articles86
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  • Xu, Z., Zhao, Y., Liew, J., Zhou, X., & Kogut, A. (2023). Synthesizing research evidence on self-regulated learning and academic achievement in online and blended learning environments: A scoping review. Educational Research Review. 39(Asia Pacific Scholar 6 2 2021), 100510-100510.
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  • Polsley, S., Powell, L., Kim, H., Thomas, X., Liew, J., & Hammond, T. (2022). Detecting Children's Fine Motor Skill Development using Machine Learning. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. 32(4), 991-1024.
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  • Liew, J., Chung, K., & Lam, C. B. (2022). If Culture is All Around Us, Where Is It In Our Theories and Our Research?. 33(5), 739-745.
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  • Ganz, J. B., Liew, J., Yllades, V., Liao, C., Luo, W., Hong, E. R., ... Ura, S. K. (2022). Communication and Affective Synchrony between Parents and Their Children with Autism during a Multimodal Communication Parent-Coaching Intervention. Child and Family Behavior Therapy. 44(2), 113-134.
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  • Nyanamba, J. M., Liew, J., & Li, D. (2022). Parental burnout and remote learning at home during the COVID-19 pandemic: Parents' motivations for involvement.. School Psychology. 37(2), 160-172.
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  • Hill, D. J., Li, D., Wang, J., & Liew, J. (2021). Cultural Values, Intergenerational Transmission of Internalized Racism, Education, and Career Goals in Chinese American Families. Journal of Career Development. 49(5), 089484532110269-089484532110269.
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  • Weimer, A. A., Warnell, K. R., Ettekal, I., Cartwright, K. B., Guajardo, N. R., & Liew, J. (2021). Correlates and antecedents of theory of mind development during middle childhood and adolescence: An integrated model. Developmental Review. 59, 100945-100945.
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  • Gagne, J. R., Liew, J., & Nwadinobi, O. K. (2021). How does the broader construct of self-regulation relate to emotion regulation in young children?. Developmental Review. 60, 100965-100965.
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  • Shi, Q., Ettekal, I., Liew, J., & Woltering, S. (2021). Predicting differentiated developmental trajectories of prosocial behavior: A 12-year longitudinal study of children facing early risks and vulnerabilities. International Journal of Behavioral Development. 45(4), 327-336.
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  • Ohrt, T. K., Perez, M., Liew, J., Hernndez, J. C., & Yu, K. Y. (2020). The influence of temperament on stress-induced emotional eating in children.. Obesity Science and Practice. 6(5), 524-534.
  • Liew, J., Erbeli, F., Nyanamba, J. M., & Li, D. (2020). Pathways to Reading Competence: Emotional Self-regulation, Literacy Contexts, and Embodied Learning Processes. Reading Psychology. 41(7), 633-659.
  • Chung, K., Lam, C. B., & Liew, J. (2020). Studying Childrens Social-Emotional Development in School and at Home through a Cultural Lens. Early Education and Development. 31(6), 927-929.
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  • Eisenberg, N., Spinrad, T. L., Taylor, Z. E., & Liew, J. (2019). Relations of Inhibition and Emotion-Related Parenting to Young Children's Prosocial and Vicariously Induced Distress Behavior.. Child Development. 90(3), 846-858.
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  • Zhou, Z., SooHoo, M., Zhou, Q., Perez, M., & Liew, J. (2019). Temperament as Risk and Protective Factors in Obesogenic Eating: Relations Among Parent Temperament, Child Temperament, and Child Food Preference and Eating.. Journal of Genetic Psychology. 180(1), 75-79.
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  • Liew, J., Cameron, C. E., & Lockman, J. J. (2018). Parts of the Whole: Motor and Behavioral Skills in Self-Regulation and Schooling Outcomes. 29(7), 909-913.
  • Cankaya, E. M., Liew, J., & Pizarro de Freitas, C. P. (2018). Curiosity and Autonomy as Factors That Promote Personal Growth in the Cross-cultural Transition Process of International Students. Journal of International Students. 8(4),
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  • Cankaya, E. M., Liew, J., & Pizarro de Freitas, C. P. (2018). Curiosity and Autonomy as Factors That Promote Personal Growth in the Cross-cultural Transition Process of International Students. Journal of International Students. 8(4), 1694-1708.
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  • Palermo, F., Liew, J., & Gmez, P. B. (2017). Early Education and Development Special Issue. Early Education and Development. 28(7), 921-923.
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  • Moed, A., Gershoff, E. T., Eisenberg, N., Hofer, C., Losoya, S., Spinrad, T. L., & Liew, J. (2017). Parent-child negative emotion reciprocity and children's school success: An emotion-attention process model.. 26(3), 560-574.
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  • Cankaya, E. M., Dong, X., & Liew, J. (2017). An examination of the relationship between social self-efficacy and personal growth initiative in international context. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 61, 88-96.
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  • Leon, J., & Liew, J. (2017). Profiles of adolescents' peer and teacher relatedness: Differences in well-being and academic achievement across latent groups. Learning and Individual Differences: journal of psychology and education. 54, 41-50.
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  • Liew, J., Cameron, C. E., & Lockman, J. J. (2016). Early Education and Development Special Issue. Early Education and Development. 27(7), 1101-1102.
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  • Weber, R. C., Johnson, A., Riccio, C. A., & Liew, J. (2016). Balanced bilingualism and executive functioning in children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 19(2), 425-431.
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  • Dixon, L. Q., Liew, J., Daraghmeh, A., & Smith, D. (2016). PreService Teacher Attitudes Toward English Language Learners. NABE Journal of Research and Practice. 7(1), 75-105.
  • Delen, E., & Liew, J. (2016). The Use of Interactive Environments to Promote Self-Regulation in Online Learning: A Literature Review. European Journal of Contemporary Education. 15(1), 24-33.
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  • Diep, C. S., Lu, W., McKyer, E., Goodson, P., Guidry, J. J., Murano, P. S., & Liew, J. (2015). Influences of Fruit and Vegetable Intake among Asian Youth on Texas WIC. Health behavior and policy review. 2(6), 429-437.
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  • Moed, A., Gershoff, E. T., Eisenberg, N., Hofer, C., Losoya, S., Spinrad, T. L., & Liew, J. (2015). Parent-Adolescent Conflict as Sequences of Reciprocal Negative Emotion: Links with Conflict Resolution and Adolescents' Behavior Problems.. Journal of Youth and Adolescence: a multidisciplinary research publication. 44(8), 1607-1622.
  • Diep, C. S., Foster, M. J., McKyer, E., Goodson, P., Guidry, J. J., & Liew, J. (2015). What are Asian-American youth consuming? A systematic literature review.. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 17(2), 591-604.
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  • Edwards, A., Eisenberg, N., Spinrad, T. L., Reiser, M., Eggum-Wilkens, N. D., & Liew, J. (2015). Predicting Sympathy and Prosocial Behavior from Young Children's Dispositional Sadness.. Social Development. 24(1), 76-94.
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  • Bench, S. W., Lench, H. C., Liew, J., Miner, K., & Flores, S. A. (2015). Gender Gaps in Overestimation of Math Performance. Sex Roles: a journal of research. 72(11-12), 536-546.
  • Leon, J., Nunez, J. L., & Liew, J. (2015). Self-determination and STEM education: Effects of autonomy, motivation, and self-regulated learning on high school math achievement. Learning and Individual Differences: journal of psychology and education. 43, 156-163.
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  • Delen, E., Liew, J., & Willson, V. (2014). Effects of interactivity and instructional scaffolding on learning: Self-regulation in online video-based environments. Computers & Education. 78, 312-320.
  • Liew, J., Kwok, O., Chang, Y., Chang, B. W., & Yeh, Y. (2014). Parental Autonomy Support Predicts Academic Achievement Through Emotion-Related Self-Regulation and Adaptive Skills in Chinese American Adolescents. Asian American Journal of Psychology. 5(3), 214-222.
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  • Eisenberg, N., Hofer, C., Sulik, M. J., & Liew, J. (2014). The development of prosocial moral reasoning and a prosocial orientation in young adulthood: concurrent and longitudinal correlates.. Developmental Psychology. 50(1), 58-70.
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  • Arghode, V., Yalvac, B., & Liew, J. (2013). Teacher Empathy and Science Education: A Collective Case Study. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education. 9(2), 89-99.
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  • Eisenberg, N., Sulik, M. J., Spinrad, T. L., Edwards, A., Eggum, N. D., Liew, J., ... Hart, D. (2012). Differential susceptibility and the early development of aggression: interactive effects of respiratory sinus arrhythmia and environmental quality.. Developmental Psychology. 48(3), 755-768.
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  • Eggum, N. D., Eisenberg, N., Reiser, M., Spinrad, T. L., Michalik, N. M., Valiente, C., Liew, J., & Sallquist, J. (2012). Relations over Time among Children's Shyness, Emotionality, and Internalizing Problems.. Social Development. 21(1), 109-129.
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  • Liew, J., Xiang, P., Johnson, A. Y., & Kwok, O. M. (2011). Effortful persistence and body mass as predictors of running achievement in children and youth: A longitudinal study. Journal of physical activity & health. 8(3), 234-243.
  • Liew, J., Xiang, P., Johnson, A. Y., & Kwok, O. (2011). Effortful persistence and body mass as predictors of running achievement in children and youth: a longitudinal study.. Journal of physical activity & health. 8(2), 234-243.
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  • Liew, J., Eisenberg, N., Spinrad, T. L., Eggum, N. D., Haugen, R. G., Kupfer, A., ... Baham, M. E. (2011). Physiological Regulation and Fearfulness as Predictors of Young Children's Empathy-related Reactions.. Social Development. 20(1), 111-113.
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  • Valiente, C., Eisenberg, N., Haugen, R. g., Spinrad, T. L., Hofer, C., Liew, J., & Kupfer, A. (2011). Children's Effortful Control and Academic Achievement: Mediation Through Social Functioning.. Early Education and Development. 22(3), 411-433.
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  • Liew, J., Johnson, A. Y., Smith, T. R., & Thoemmes, F. (2011). Parental Expressivity, Child Physiological and Behavioral Regulation, and Child Adjustment: Testing a Three-Path Mediation Model. Early Education and Development. 22(4), 549-573.
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  • McTigue, E., & Liew, J. (2011). Principles and Practices for Building Academic Self-Efficacy in Middle Grades Language Arts Classrooms. Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas. 84(3), 114-118.
  • Chen, Q. i., Hughes, J. N., Liew, J., & Kwok, O. (2010). Joint Contributions of Peer Acceptance and Peer Academic Reputation to Achievement in Academically At Risk Children: Mediating Processes.. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. 31(6), 448-459.
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  • Eisenberg, N., Haugen, R. g., Spinrad, T. L., Hofer, C., Chassin, L., Zhou, Q., ... Liew, J. (2010). Relations of Temperament to Maladjustment and Ego Resiliency in At-Risk Children.. 19(3), 577-600.
  • Liew, J., Chen, Q. i., & Hughes, J. N. (2010). Child Effortful Control, Teacher-student Relationships, and Achievement in Academically At-risk Children: Additive and Interactive Effects.. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 25(1), 51-64.
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  • Eisenberg, N., Valiente, C., Spinrad, T. L., Liew, J., Zhou, Q., Losoya, S. H., Reiser, M., & Cumberland, A. (2009). Longitudinal relations of children's effortful control, impulsivity, and negative emotionality to their externalizing, internalizing, and co-occurring behavior problems.. Developmental Psychology. 45(4), 988-1008.
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  • Luo, W., Hughes, J. N., Liew, J., & Kwok, O. (2009). Classifying Academically At-Risk First Graders into Engagement Types: Association with Long-Term Achievement Trajectories.. The Elementary School Journal. 109(4), 380-405.
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  • McTigue, E. M., Washburn, E. K., & Liew, J. (2009). Academic Resilience and Reading: Building Successful Readers. 62(5), 422-432.
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  • Sallquist, J. V., Eisenberg, N., Spinrad, T. L., Reiser, M., Hofer, C., Zhou, Q., Liew, J., & Eggum, N. (2009). Positive and negative emotionality: trajectories across six years and relations with social competence.. Emotion. 9(1), 15-28.
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  • Liew, J., McTigue, E., Barrois, L., & Hughes, J. (2008). Adaptive and Effortful Control and Academic Self-efficacy Beliefs on Achievement: A Longitudinal Study of 1 through 3 Graders.. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 23(4), 515-526.
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  • Spinrad, T. L., Eisenberg, N., Gaertner, B., Popp, T., Smith, C. L., Kupfer, A., ... Hofer, C. (2007). Relations of maternal socialization and toddlers' effortful control to children's adjustment and social competence.. Developmental Psychology. 43(5), 1170-1186.
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  • Eisenberg, N., Michalik, N., Spinrad, T. L., Hofer, C., Kupfer, A., Valiente, C., ... Reiser, M. (2007). The Relations of Effortful Control and Impulsivity to Children's Sympathy: A Longitudinal Study.. Cognitive Development. 22(4), 544-567.
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  • Valiente, C., Eisenberg, N., Spinrad, T. L., Reiser, M., Cumberland, A., Losoya, S. H., & Liew, J. (2006). Relations among mothers' expressivity, children's effortful control, and their problem behaviors: a four-year longitudinal study.. Emotion. 6(3), 459-472.
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  • Smith, C. L., Eisenberg, N., Spinrad, T. L., Chassin, L., Morris, A. S., Kupfer, A., ... Kwok, O. (2006). Children's coping strategies and coping efficacy: relations to parent socialization, child adjustment, and familial alcoholism.. Development and Psychopathology. 18(2), 445-469.
  • Eisenberg, N., Zhou, Q., Spinrad, T. L., Valiente, C., Fabes, R. A., & Liew, J. (2005). Relations among positive parenting, children's effortful control, and externalizing problems: a three-wave longitudinal study.. Child Development. 76(5), 1055-1071.
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  • Eisenberg, N., Liew, J., & Pidada, S. U. (2004). The longitudinal relations of regulation and emotionality to quality of Indonesian children's socioemotional functioning.. Developmental Psychology. 40(5), 790-804.
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  • Liew, J., Eisenberg, N., & Reiser, M. (2004). Preschoolers' effortful control and negative emotionality, immediate reactions to disappointment, and quality of social functioning.. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 89(4), 298-319.
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  • Liew, J., Eisenberg, N., Losoya, S. H., Fabes, R. A., Guthrie, I. K., & Murphy, B. C. (2003). Children's physiological indices of empathy and their socioemotional adjustment: does caregivers' expressivity matter?. Journal of Family Psychology. 17(4), 584-597.
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  • Eisenberg, N., Pidada, S., & Liew, J. (2001). The relations of regulation and negative emotionality to Indonesian children's social functioning.. Child Development. 72(6), 1747-1763.
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  • Eisenberg, N., Liew, J., & Pidada, S. U. (2001). The relations of parental emotional expressivity with quality of Indonesian children's social functioning.. Emotion. 1(2), 116-136.
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  • Xu, Z., Zhao, Y., Zhang, B., Liew, J., & Kogut, A. A meta-analysis of the efficacy of self-regulated learning interventions on academic achievement in online and blended environments in K-12 and higher education. Behaviour and Information Technology. 42(16), 2911-2931.
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  • Barbot, B., Hein, S., Trentacosta, C., Beckmann, J. F., Bick, J., Crocetti, E., ... van IJzendoorn, M. H. Manifesto for new directions in developmental science.. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. 2020(172), 135-149.
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Books1
  • Eisenberg, N., Hofer, C., Spinrad, T. L., Gershoff, E. T., Valiente, C., Losoya, S. H., ... Maxon, E. (2008). Understanding mother-adolescent conflict discussions: concurrent and across-time prediction from youths' dispositions and parenting.. Wiley.
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Chapters12
  • Aguilar, S. D., Burte, H., Yasskin, P., Liew, J., Yeh, S., Qian, C., ... Yan, W. (2024). AR-Classroom: Investigating User-App-Interactions to Enhance Usability of AR Technology for Learning Two and Three Dimensional Rotations. Communications in Computer and Information Science. HCI International 2023 Late Breaking Posters. 249-256. Springer Nature.
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  • Aguilar, S. D., Burte, H., Stautler, J., Mondal, S., Qian, C., Monjoree, U., ... Yan, W. (2024). Learning 3D Matrix Algebra Using Virtual and Physical Manipulatives: Qualitative Analysis of the Efficacy of the AR-Classroom. Learning and Collaboration Technologies. 3-16. Springer Nature.
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  • Burte, H., Aguilar, S. D., Stautler, J., Mondal, S., Qian, C., Monjoree, U., ... Yan, W. (2024). Learning 3D Matrix Algebra Using Virtual and Physical Manipulatives: Statistical Analysis of Quantitative Data Evaluating the Efficacy of the AR-Classroom. Learning and Collaboration Technologies. 50-64. Springer Nature.
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  • Aguilar, S. D., Burte, H., Shaghaghian, Z., Yasskin, P., Liew, J., & Yan, W. (2023). Enhancing Usability in AR and Non-AR Educational Technology: An Embodied Approach to Geometric Transformations. Learning and Collaboration Technologies. 3-21. Springer Nature.
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  • Liew, J., & Spinrad, T. L. (2022). Emotional Self-Regulation Processes as Foundation for Social-Emotional Competencies and Whole-Child School Success. Emotional Self-Regulation Processes as Foundation for Social-Emotional Competencies and Whole-Child School Success. Taylor & Francis.
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Conference Papers1
  • Purta, R., Hachen, D., Liew, J., & Striegel, A. (2015). Toward a System for Longitudinal Emotion Sensing. 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems. 651-656.
chaired theses and dissertations
Email
jeffrey.liew@tamu.edu
First Name
Jeffrey
Last Name
Liew
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Educational Psychology; 4225 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4225
USA