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Jason Liu is an Endowed Computer Science Professor and Director of the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida, USA. He earned his B.S. degree in Computer Science from Beijing University of Technology in China in 1993, M.S. degree in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary in 2000, and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College in 2003. Following his Ph.D., he served as Research Scientist at Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS) in 2003 and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2003 to 2004. Liu was Assistant Professor at the Colorado School of Mines from 2004 to 2007. He has held additional appointments as Honorary Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, China, Visiting Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and Visiting Scientist at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) / Laboratory of Information, Networking and Communication Sciences (LINCS).

Liu specializes in parallel discrete-event simulation, with research interests in high-performance modeling and simulation, performance modeling and simulation of computer systems and networks, network modeling, simulation, emulation and testbeds, modeling and simulation of high-performance computing systems, computer systems, cybersecurity, and data analytics. He serves on the Editorial Boards of ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), SIMULATION, Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, and IEEE Networking Letters, and on the Steering Committee of the ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (SIGSIM-PADS). He has served as General Chair or Program Chair for several conferences and received research funding from NSF, DOE, DOD, DHS, and NIH. Awards include the NSF CAREER Award in 2006 and ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2014. Key publications include “Toward a Steady-State Fluid Model of HPC Networks” (SIGSIM-PADS, 2025), “A Generalized Model for Modern Hierarchical Memory System” (WSC, 2022), “Simulus: Easy Breezy Simulation in Python” (WSC, 2020), and “Virtual Time Machine for Reproducible Network Emulation” (SIGSIM-PADS, 2019).