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College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts

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Assistant Director for Project Development

# overview
Dr. Jian Tao is an Assistant Professor from the Section of Visual Computing & Computational Media in the School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts at Texas A&M University. He is also the Director of the Digital Twin Lab and the Assistant Director for Project Development at the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science. Tao holds courtesy appointments at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, the Department of Nuclear Engineering, and the Department of Multidisciplinary Engineering in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University.

Tao received his Ph.D. in Computational Astrophysics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2008 and worked on computational frameworks for numerical relativity, computational fluid dynamics, coastal modeling, and other applications at Louisiana State University before he joined Texas A&M in 2016. In 2018, Tao led the Texas A&M team to the final of both the ASC18 and SC18 student cluster competitions. He is a faculty advisor of the Texas A&M 12th Unmanned Team for the SAE/GM AutoDrive Challenge Competition and leads a project funded by the Department of Commerce to build a digital twin for the Disaster City at Texas A&M University. Tao is an NVIDIA DLI University Ambassador at Texas A&M and a contributor to the SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark suite. He currently serves as the Testbed Committee Co-Chair of the IEEE Public Safety Technology Initiative.

His research interests include digital twin, numerical modeling, machine learning, data analytics, distributed computing, visualization, and workflow management.

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Networking And Information Technology R&d (nitrd)

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Networking And Information Technology R&d (nitrd)

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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Networking And Information Technology R&d (nitrd)

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Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence

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University of Science and Technology of China - (Hefei, China)

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Washington University in St. Louis - (St Louis, Missouri, United States)

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CaKernel - A parallel application programming framework for heterogenous computing architectures

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Use of Fire-Extinguishing Balls for a Conceptual System of Drone-Assisted Wildfire Fighting

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An HPC Framework for Large Scale Simulations and Visualizations of Oil Spill Trajectories

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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A Study on I/O Performance in Highly Consolidated Container-Based Virtualized Environment on OverlayFS with Optimized Synchronization

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Using GPU's to accelerate stencil-based computation kernels for the development of large scale scientific applications on heterogeneous systems

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Study on parallelization of components' proportion calculation for three dimensional thermal anisotropy modelof urban targets based on Linux cluster

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Large Scale GPU Accelerated PPMLR-MHD Simulations for Space Weather Forecast

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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OpenCL Implementation of a Parallel Universal Kriging Algorithm for Massive Spatial Data Interpolation on Heterogeneous Systems

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A Massive Data Parallel Computational Framework for Petascale/Exascale Hybrid Computer Systems

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Hands-On Iii: Building Digital Twins for Precision Livestock Farming: Data Analytics and Big Data Challenges

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Research on the implementation of multi-source remote sensing image management system based on B/S architecture

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Technical Note: Using Computer Visions Pixel Segmentation to Detect Beef Cattle Feeding Behavior

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From physics model to results: An optimizing framework for cross-architecture code generation

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From Physics Model to Results: An Optimizing Framework for Cross-Architecture Code Generation

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Using GPU's to Accelerate Stencil-based Computation Kernels for the Development of Large Scale Scientific Applications on Heterogeneous Systems

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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A Parallel and Optimization Approach for Land-Surface Temperature Retrieval on a Windows-Based PC Cluster

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Research on Optimization Methods of ELM Classification Algorithm for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Images

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Mapping the Unheard: Analyzing Tradeoffs Between Fisheries and Offshore Wind Farms Using Multicriteria Decision Analysis

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A New Parallel Method for Binary Black Hole Simulations

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CaKernel  A Parallel Application Programming Framework for Heterogenous Computing Architectures

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Methodology and optimization for implementing cluster-based parallel geospatial algorithms with a case study

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Fast 3D map reconstruction using dense visual simultaneous localization and mapping based on unmanned aerial vehicle

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Improving I/O Performance in Container with OverlayFS

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Porting AI/ML Models to Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs)

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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A Parallel Nonlocal Means Algorithm for Remote Sensing Image Denoising on an Intel Xeon Phi Platform

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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An Unprecedented Set of High-Resolution Earth System Simulations for Understanding Multiscale Interactions in Climate Variability and Change

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From Physics Model to Results: An Optimizing Framework for Cross-Architecture Code Generation

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Benchmarking Parallel I/O Performance for a Large Scale Scientific Application on the TeraGrid

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Runtime analysis tools for parallel scientific applications

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Computational relativistic astrophysics with adaptive mesh refinement: Testbeds

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LARGE SCALE PROBLEM SOLVING USING AUTOMATIC CODE GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTED VISUALIZATION

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A Massive Data Parallel Computational Framework for Petascale/Exascale Hybrid Computer Systems

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Revealing the linguistic and geographical disparities of public awareness to Covid-19 outbreak through social media

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Evaluation of Computer Vision to Analyze Beef Cattle Feeding Behavior

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Performance improvement of file operations on overlayfs for containers

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Improving Pulse Shape Discrimination in Organic Scintillation Detectors by Understanding Underlying Data Structure

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Efforts Towards a Digital Twin-based Testbed for Public Safety

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Fast Reconstruction of 3D Point Cloud Model Using Visual SLAM on Embedded UAV Development Platform

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CaKernel  A parallel application programming framework for heterogenous computing architectures

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From Physics Model to Results: An Optimizing Framework for Cross-Architecture Code Generation

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Computational Relativistic Astrophysics With Adaptive Mesh Refinement: Testbeds

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PMODTRAN: a parallel implementation based on MODTRAN for massive remote sensing data processing

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Implementation of the parallel mean shift-based image segmentation algorithm on a GPU cluster

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Technology Laboratories: Facilitating Instruction for Cyberinfrastructure Infused Data Sciences

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Parallel compressive sampling matching pursuit algorithm for compressed sensing signal reconstruction with OpenCL

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Research on the Parallelization of the DBSCAN Clustering Algorithm for Spatial Data Mining Based on the Spark Platform

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Simulation Management Systems Developed by the Northern Gulf Coastal Hazards Collaboratory (NG-CHC): An Overview of Cyberinfrastructure to Support the Coastal Modeling Community in the Gulf of Mexico

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A case study for petascale applications in astrophysics

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Universal workflow-based high performance geo-computation service chain platform

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Preliminary study on the automatic parallelism optimization model for image enhancement algorithms based on Intel's Xeon Phi

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BIGDATA: Small: DCM: Collaborative Research: An efficient, versatile, scalable, and portable storage system for scientific data containers

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Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts; 3237 TAMU

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College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts