LIU PENG

liupeng@usc.edu

Contact Information

Career Goal

My ambition is to become a world class researcher in computer science, conducting state-of-art research to push back the frontiers of computer science.

Education History

• 08/2007 – present Ph.D in Computer Science , at University of Southern California, USA Under the supervision of Professor Aiichiro Nakano, specializing in High Performance Computing. GPA: 3.94/4 Expected Graduation Date: May 2011
• 09/2004 – 07/2007 Master in Computer Science, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
• 09/2000 – 07/2004 Bachelor in Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Graduated with summa cum laude. GPA: 3.91/4.

Awards

• 08/2007 – 05/2010 granted with a four-year fellowship, tow years of Annenberg fellowship and two years of Viterbi fellowship, from USC, the highest award for an international student.
• 09/2004 – 07/2007 granted with a three-year fellowship, from Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 07/2004 Excellent Thesis of both Hubei Province and Huazhong Univ. of Sci. &Tech.
• 01/2004 exempted from entrance examinations of graduate study due to the excellent GPA 3.89/4 as a undergraduate
• 09/2000 – 07/2004 granted with scholarship every year, from Huazhong Univ. of Sci. &Tech.

Academic Experience

• 09/2007 – present research assistant, mainly doing some research on multi-core parallelization of scientific applications at CACS of USC. (http://cacs.usc.edu), using spatial decomposition, dual representation for critical section free, MPI+Pthread+SIMD optimization framework, on Cell_be based platform, GPU CUDA, Blue Gen L and P, general dual QuadCore cluster.
• 09/2006 – 03/2007 research assistant, mainly did some research on Probe Design for Genchip at NCIC of ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences(http://www.ncic.ac.cn/en/index_e.htm),use Bayes theory and spaced seed to predict the best probe.
• 08/2005 – 02/2006 research assistant, mainly did some research on Algorithm Optimization of Multiple Sequence Alignment(MSA): reduced MSA to Tree Accumulation, paralleled it on ourcluster and proposed a load balancing strategy to improve the performance at NCIC of ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences(http://www.ncic.ac.cn/en/index_e.htm).
• 02/2004 – 08/2004 research assistant, mainly did some Performance tuning and evaluation on Opteron Platform, and took part in the High Performance Linpack testing of the super computer Dawning 4000, which ranked top10 in the TOP500 list in year 2004 at NCIC of ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences(http://www.ncic.ac.cn/en/index_e.htm).
• Summer of 2008 done summer intern in Emerging Technology. Technical Computing, ETC of Chevron, optimize 36 points Stencil Problem for Seismic Simulation on dual cell-BE QS22.

Publications

• Liu Peng,Richard Seymour, Ken-ichi Nomura, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Priya Vashishta, "High-Order Stencil Computations on Multicore Clusters", IPDPS09, acceptted
• Liu Peng, Ken-ichi Nomura, Takehiro Oyakawa, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Priya Vashishta, “Parallel lattice Boltzmann flow simulation on emerging multi-core platforms”,Euro-Par 2008, Canary Island, Spain, Aug. 26th-Aug. 29th, 2008
• Ken-ichi Nomura, Simon de Leeuw, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Liu Peng, Richard Seymour, Lin H. Yang, Priya Vashishta, “Parallel Lattice Boltzmann Flow Simulation on a Low-cost PlayStation3 Cluster”, International Journal of Computational Science, accepted.
• Liu Peng, Shengzhong Feng, “The Probe Design in Genchip based on Bayes theory and Spaced ”, Journal of Computer Engineering and Applications, Nov, 2007.
• Guangming Tan, Liu Peng, Shengzhong Feng, Ninghui Sun "Load Balancing and Parallel Multiple Sequence Alignment with Tree Accumulation" ,Euro-Par 2006, Dresden, Germany, Aug. 29th-Sep. 1st, 2006
• Liu Peng, Zhenhua Dai, Gaofeng Feng, Shengzhong Feng “Modeling on Performance Tuning and Evaluating on Opteron Based Platform”, Proceeding of 8th National Conference on Parallel Computing, Dalian, China, Jul. 26-29, 2004

Presentations

• "How to optimize parallel Lattice Boltzmman Fluid Flow Simulation on Cell and GPU", (Poster )CRA-W 2007, Seattle, March 12th.
• “High Performance Simulation and Visualization” Super Computing 2007, Reno, USA, 11th Nov to 15th ,Nov. 2007.
• "Load Balancing and Parallel Multiple Sequence Alignment with Tree Accumulation", Euro-Par 2006, Dresden, Germany, Aug. 29th, 2006.
• How to Construct High Performance Computers for “CSWUG08”, May 18th, 2008, USC
• “Modeling on Performance Tuning and Evaluating on Opteron Based Platform”, Proceeding of 8th National Conference on Parallel Computing”, Dalian, China, Jul. 27th, 2004.

Activities

• In charge of operating a visualization lab at USC for the 3rd annual Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, Jan 19th, 2008, USC, trying to encourage the talented female students to continue their further career in interdisciplinary research of physics and materials study using high performance parallel computers.
• As Exhibitor, explaining novel scalable visualization technologies and large-scale material simulation results performed on parallel supercomputing architectures at the booth of USC in Super Computing 2007, Reno, USA, 11th Nov to 15th ,Nov. 2007. While also taking part in different technical sections and workshops to get a overview of the most cutting-edge research in our discipline and try to communicate with famous professors to make myself known by them to try to enter the academic and technical community of our discipline.
• As a key member of female community, organized Open Day of our department, tutoring the prosperous students and their parents around our department in Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech.
• Organized 2004’s new year party for MBA students and so on in Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech.

References

• Professor Aiichiro Nakano http://cacs.usc.edu/people/nakano.php
• Professor Craig Stewart http://www.indiana.edu/~rac/stewart.html

Working Experience

June 2nd – Aug 12th, 2008 summer intern in ETC, Chevron, 1500 Louisiana, Houston