Yiqian Liu

Yiqian Liu

Ph.D. candidate in the
Department of Computer Science

About

I am a Ph.D. student at Texas State University, advised by Dr. Martin Burtscher. I am a member of the Efficient Computing Laboratory (ECL) and a Doctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Computer Science. My research focuses on benchmark suite design, data compression, and parallelization of graph algorithms.

Projects

CIVIC (verification of irregular parallel programs)
LC (high-speed lossy data compression framework)

Current Research

Design of irregular benchmark suites
High-speed data compression on GPUs

Prior Research

Out-of-core graph coloring
Parallelization of A* algorithm
Parallelization of all pairs shortest paths on GPUs

Publication

Yiqian Liu, Noushin Azami, and Martin Burtscher. The Indigo Program-Verification Microbenchmark Suite of Irregular Parallel Code Patterns. Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software. May 2022. [pdf]. Best paper award.
Out-of-Core Graph Coloring Algorithm. Master thesis, Texas State University. August 2020. [pdf]

Awards

Research Excellence Award [2022]

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, Texas State University, from September 2020
M.S., Computer Science, Texas State University, August 2020
M.S., Global Communication, Simon Fraser University, May 2017
B.E., Communication, Communication University of China, June 2013

Contact

y_l120 @ txstate.edu