Qi (Jacky) Liu Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering – Carleton University M.A.Sc. (Senate Medal) – Carleton University B.Eng. – HUST, China Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Gabriel A. Wainer

Email: liuqi@sce.carleton.ca (University) liujacky2001@gmail.com (Private) Phone: 1-613-5202600 ext. 3014 (Office) Office: 3218 V-Sim Bldg (ARS Laboratory)

“Publish or Perish – I am living on the line …” -- Jacky Q. Liu

(If you have the same motto… well, what a coincidence!)

Since Dec. 2010, I have been working as a postdoctoral researcher

at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in NY, USA.

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Research Interests

• Modeling and Simulation Methodologies and Tools
• Parallel & Distributed Discrete-Event Simulation
• Multicore Computing
• High-Performance Parallel Computing
• Performance Engineering
• Operations Research and Optimization

Curriculum vitae

• Up-to-date CV available upon request

In the News

• In the finalists of the IEEE Services Computing Contest 2008
• In the finalists of 2007 OCRI awards
• News from Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, Carleton
• Carleton NOW
• Ingenious
• Engineering students win scholarships to research robots

Publications

Journals

• Multicore Acceleration of DEVS Systems. Q. Liu and G. Wainer. In Journal of SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 2011.
• Applying Cellular Automata and DEVS Methodologies to Digital Games: A Survey. G. Wainer, Q. Liu, O. Dalle, and B. P. Zeigler. In Simulation & Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research, 41(6), (Dec. 2010): 796-823.
• Tools for Graphical Specification and Visualization of DEVS Models. G. Wainer and Q. Liu. In Journal of SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 85(3), (Mar. 2009): 131-158.
• Parallel Environment for DEVS and Cell-DEVS Models. Q. Liu and G. Wainer. In Journal of SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 83(6), (June 2007): 449-471.

Book Chapters

• Parallel Simulation of DEVS and Cell-DEVS Models in PCD++. G. Wainer, Q. Liu, S. Jafer. In Discrete-Event Modeling and Simulation: Theory and Applications. CRC Press, 223-270, 2010.
• Mechanisms for Three-Dimensional Visualization. G. Wainer, Q. Liu. In Discrete-Event Modeling and Simulation: A Practitioner's Approach. Taylor and Francis, 463-483, 2009.

Refereed Conferences

• Novel Performance Optimization of Large-scale Discrete-event Simulation on the Cell Broadband Engine. Q. Liu, G. Wainer, L. Lu, and M. Perrone. In Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2010), Caen, France. (June 2010).
• Exploring Multi-Grained Parallelism in Compute-Intensive DEVS Simulations. Q. Liu and G. Wainer. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS’10), Atlanta, GA, USA. (May 2010): 65-72.
• Accelerating Large-scale DEVS-based Simulation on the Cell Processor. Q. Liu and G. Wainer. In Proceedings of the 2010 Spring Simulation Multiconference: Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation – DEVS Integrative M&S Symposium (DEVS 2010), Orlando, FL, USA. (April 2010).
• A Performance Evaluation of the Lightweight Time Warp Protocol in Optimistic Parallel Simulation of DEVS-based Environmental Models. Q. Liu and G. Wainer. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS’09), Lake Placid, NY, USA. (June 2009): 27-34.
• Lightweight Time Warp – A Novel Protocol for Parallel Optimistic Simulation of Large-Scale DEVS and Cell-DEVS Models. Q. Liu and G. Wainer. In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (IEEE DS-RT 2008), Vancouver, BC, Canada. (October 2008): 131-138.
• Distributed Simulation and Web Map Mash-Up for Forest Fire Spread. Y. Harzallah, V. Michel, Q. Liu, and G. Wainer. In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Services - Part I, Honolulu, HI, USA. (July 2008): 176-183.
• Parallel Simulation of DEVS and Cell-DEVS Models on Windows-based PC Cluster Systems. B. Feng, Q. Liu, and G. Wainer. In Proceedings of the High Performance Computing and Simulation Symposium (HPCS 2008), SpringSim’08. Ottawa, ON, Canada. (April 2008): 439-446.
• Performance Analysis of Web-based Distributed Simulation in DCD++: A Case Study across the Atlantic Ocean. G. Wainer, Q. Liu, J. Chazal, L. Quinet, and M.K. Traore. In Proceedings of the High Performance Computing and Simulation Symposium (HPCS 2008), SpringSim’08. Ottawa, ON, Canada. (April 2008): 413-420.
• Performance Analysis of an Optimistic Simulator for CD++. Q. Liu, G. Wainer. In Proceedings of the IEEE 40th Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS'07), Norfolk, VA, USA. (March 2007): 123-132.
• Simulating Market Dynamics with CD++. Q. Liu, G. Wainer. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science. LNCS. Atlanta, GA, USA. (May 2005): 368-372.

Awards

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) 2010 – 2011 (declined)
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) 2009 - 2010
• MITACS ACCELERATE Ontario Scholarship 2009
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) 2008 - 2009
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) 2007 - 2008
• Koningstein Scholarship for Excellence in Science and Engineering 2006-2007
• Carleton University Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement 2006
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (OGSST) 2006 – 2007
• Dean of Graduate Studies Academic Excellence Scholarship for Domestic Students 2006 – 2010
• Graduate Scholarship 2006 – 2010
• Precarn Scholarship 2006
• John Ruptash Memorial Fellowship 2006
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (OGSST) 2005 – 2006

Ph.D. Dissertation

A description of Algorithms for Parallel Simulation of Large-Scale DEVS and Cell-DEVS Models (2010) is available here.

M.A.Sc. Thesis

A description of Distributed Optimistic Simulation of DEVS and Cell-DEVS Models with PCD++ (2006) is available here.

Activities

• The 2nd Annual Carleton Cell BE Programming Workshop (CCPW-2009), Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2009 - Best Poster Award.
• The 12th IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2008), Vancouver, BC, Canada. 2008.
• The Spring Simulation Conference (SpingSim'08), Ottawa, ON, Canada. 2008.
• The 6^th International Conference on Unconventional Computation (UC'07), Kingston, ON, Canada. 2007.
• The Spring Simulation Conference (SpingSim'07), Norfolk, VA, USA. 2007.
• The 16^th Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems, Victoria, BC, Canada. 2006.
• Tucson-Ottawa University of Arizona–Carleton University Knowledge Exchange III, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. 2006.
• The MITACS 6^th Annual Conference, Calgary, AB, Canada. 2005.
• Chair and founding member of the Ottawa Student Chapter of the SCS. (2006 - ).