Qi (Jacky) Liu

Qi (Jacky) Liu received his M.A.Sc and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Electrical and Computer Engineering (OCIECE), Carleton University, Canada, in 2006 and 2010.

He was a recipient of a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement for his research work and a variety of distinguished scholarships, including OGS, OGSST, MITACS ACCELERATE Ontario Scholarship, Koningstein Scholarship for Excellence in Science and Technology, Precarn Scholarship, and John Ruptash Memorial Fellowship. He was also honored with the Best DEVS Modeling and Simulation PhD Dissertation Award at the 2012 International Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation (TMS'12) in Orlando, FL.

He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Exascale Computing Group (led by Dilma Da Silva) at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA. His recent projects include high-performance parallel discrete-event simulation for large-scale stream applications, parallel discrete-event simulation algorithms on heterogeneous CMP architectures, hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulation for automated performance benchmarking of cloud infrastructures, and multi-agent based architecture for autonomic management of virtualized data centers.

He served as the Chair and founding member of the Ottawa Student Chapter of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). He also served in the program committee of the Workshop on Cloud Computing Optimization as part of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2012), as well as the editorial board of the SCS M&S Newsletter.

Research Interests

• High-performance computing
• Multicore computing
• Programming models for heterogeneous architectures
• Parallel/distributed simulation algorithms
• Operations research and optimization