Yan Y. Liu
Biography
Yan Liu's primary interest is the development of high-performance and scalable algorithms and software, with a particular interest in high-performance heuristic algorithms. He has designed scalable approaches for large-scale geospatial optimization problems, harnessing massive supercomputing resources on cyberinfrastructure (e.g., 724K integer cores on BlueWaters). He was the technical coordinator of the GISolve middleware project - a leading GIS solution on cyberinfrastructure, from July 2007 to September 2010. He was the project manager of the NSF CyberGIS project from October 2010 to April 2012. He is now leading the initiative to develop extreme scale geospatial code, mainly targeting Blue Waters, the fastest supercomputer in the world on a university campus. He also leads the architecture group and the software development group for the CyberGIS Center for Advance Digital and Spatial Studies and is an XSEDE (the successor of TeraGrid) staff scientist for scientific computing and science gateway research and EOT.
