As a former awardee of Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation Minority Junior Faculty Award, Professor Cheng advocates inter-disciplinary research and integrating research results into undergraduate education. He has published papers on CSE educations, designed wireless sensing lab modules for Engineering 5: Introduction to Engineering Practice, and created a software-hardware co-design course on Network Systems Design at an advanced undergraduate level supported by the NSF and industry partner. Dr. Liang Cheng was a Visiting Professor at TU Dortmund and University of Science and Technology of China.