Presenter

Weiguo Liu received bachelor's and master's degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, and a PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is currently a full professor and director of the High-Performance Computing Lab at Shandong University. His research interests include high performance computing and data mining. He was nominated as a Taishan Scholar in Shandong Province and has received numerous awards, including the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2017, the Fraunhofer IGD Best Paper Award, and the CCF HPC China Best Paper Award. He is also on the high performance computing committee of the China Computer Federation. His research interests include high performance computing, bioinformatics, and data mining. His research group has designed tools and algorithms for applications in data processing and computational science using parallel computing technologies such as CUDA-enabled GPUs, CPU/GPU/Xeon Phi clusters, and supercomputers.