
Bio
Yan Liu (academically, a.k.a. Yan Y. Liu) is a Computational Scientist at the Computational Urban Sciences Group (CUSG) in the Computational Science and Engineering Division (CSED) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He joined ORNL in 2019. His research and development interests include:
- High-Performance Geospatial Software and Data Systems;
- High-Resolution Continental Flood Inundation Mapping;
- Time Series AI Foundation Models for Complex Dynamic Networks;
- AI-based Control in Urban Traffic and Building Systems;
- Cyber-Physical Digital Twin Systems for Hydrology and Transportation; and
- Machine Learning Software Ecosystem for Cybersecurity AI on Electricity Grid
He obtained his PhD in Informatics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), M.CS from the University of Iowa, and B.S. and M.E. from Wuhan University. He was Senior Research Programmer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2014 to 2019. He was scientific computing scientist for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Extreme Science & Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) and its predecessor TeraGrid from 2007--2018.