Handan Liu
Associate Teaching Professor, Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Programs
Research Focus
Teaching and Research Fields: Heterogeneous High-Performance Computing; General algorithms and applications of machine learning and deep learning; NLP research and development; LLM reasoning and AI agent
About
Dr. Liu is an experienced educator and a former software engineer, as well as a successful entrepreneur. She has served as a member of the teaching faculty in Computer Science at Shanghai University for seven years and, at the same time, successfully ran her own business as a developer and CEO for cutting-edge software products and services. Dr. Liu earned a Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and worked extensively with heterogeneous supercomputing to develop large high performance parallel algorithms. She then worked as a software engineer on several projects for NASA and the US Air Force on research algorithms and developing software to solve flight problems at supersonic speeds. Furthermore, she was a research faculty member at Virginia Tech and worked for the US Department of Energy to develop parallel algorithms for the large-scale software MFIX on national supercomputers. Before she became a full-time teaching professor, Dr. Liu led and participated in building the HPC clusters at Northeastern University from 2015. Since her appointment as teaching professor, Dr. Liu developed original and unique courses to combine the HPC parallel computing into data science and AI.
With more than 20 years of industrial, private industry and teaching experience, Dr. Liu is very familiar with the stresses and difficulties involved with student learning and, as a result, she strives to effectively integrate market-needed technologies into teaching and student research projects.
Research Overview
Teaching and Research Fields: Heterogeneous High-Performance Computing; General algorithms and applications of machine learning and deep learning; NLP research and development; LLM reasoning and AI agent