He obtained his Ph.D. from Rice University in 2014. His research interests are parallel computing, compilers, and performance analysis. Prof. Liu has been working on a few open-source performance tools, which are world-widely used at universities, DOE national laboratories, and in industry. Prof. Liu received HPC fellowships from NAG, Schlumberger, and BP while a Ph.D. candidate at Rice University. After joining W&M, Prof. Liu received Best Paper Award at SC’15.