Presenter

Dr. Hang Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director for High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA) Lab at University of Massachusetts Lowell. His research centers around high-performance graph computing and machine learning. Notably, his Graphics Processing Units (GPU)-accelerated graph traversal system has claimed the No. 1 most energy efficient traversal place in Green Graph 500 in June 2014. Prior to joining UMass Lowell, Dr. Liu earned his Ph.D. degree from the George Washington University where he is the recipient of Phillip/Temofel Sprawcew Endowment Scholarship and Best Dissertation Award from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.