Biography | Publications

Dr. Liu received his B.S. in mathematics from Nankai University (1992) and Ph.D. in computer science from Peking University (2000), both in China. He worked as a post-doctoral associate with the Micro-CT Lab in the Department of Radiology at the University of Iowa and then as a research scientist with the Visualization, Analysis and Imaging Lab in the High-Performance Computing Collaboratory (HPC2, formerly the NSF ERC --- Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation) at Mississippi State University. He joined Kitware in September 2008 as an R&D engineer.

Dr. Liu has participated in a series of NSF, NIH, and DoD projects as a lead scientist and has developed diverse, in-depth R&D expertise in flow visualization, volume visualization, terrain visualization, and computer graphics. His original work has been published in top-level international journals (e.g., IEEE TVCG, EuroGraphics Computer Graphics Forum) and conferences (e.g., IEEE Visualization, EuroGraphics/IEEE VGTC EuroVis/VisSym). Among his innovative algorithms, AUFLIC (Accelerated Unsteady Flow Line Integral Convolution) and ADVESS (ADVanced Evenly-Spaced Streamline placement) are the fastest (10X faster than the others of their respective kinds) software-based, high-quality visualization methods. Dr. Liu serves as a program committee member of International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC08) and IS&T/SPIE Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA09). He is an active paper reviewer for IEEE TVCG, IEEE CGA, IEEE VIS, IEEE CiSE, IEEE PacificVis, ISVC, VDA, JOV, and IJCAT. More information may be obtained from his home page at http://www.zhanpingliu.org.

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