Honggao Liu

Texas A&M University

Honggao Liu is the executive director of Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing. Liu has more than 28 years research computing, computational and data sciences, and cyberinfrastructure development experience. He has extensive leadership and management experience with large national, state, and local cyberinfrastructure projects. Liu has served as the principal investigator (PI) and co-PI on over $35 million of funding awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF). Liu is the PI on the NSF fostering Accelerated Scientific Transformations, Education, and Research (FASTER) and NSF Accelerating Computing for Emerging Sciences (ACES) awards that helped acquire the composable FASTER and ACES supercomputers. ACES and FASTER are made available to the national research community via the advanced cyberinfrastructure coordination ecosystem: services and support allocation process. ACES is also a compute resource of the national artificial intelligence research resource pilot program. Liu leads the Texas A&M team that joins the NSF-funded Frontera project. Liu works with Texas Advanced Computing Center in campus-bridging and supporting researchers who are keen to use the national leadership Frontera system. Liu is a co-principal investigator (PI) of the NSF award for Broadening Adoption of Cyberinfrastructure and Research Workforce Development for Disaster Management. Liu was the PI and director of the Intel Parallel Computing Center and the Nvidia Compute Unified Device Architecture Research Center. Liu was also the PI on several cyberinfrastructure projects connecting Louisiana’s high-performance computing (HPC) resources to the NSF TeraGrid/Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment. Liu was the deputy director of Center for Computation and Technology from 2010-2015 and director of HPC at Louisiana State University from 2008-2011 as well.