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College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts

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Assistant Director for Project Development

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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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Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence

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Networking And Information Technology R&d (nitrd)

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Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence

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9 Industry, Innovation And Infrastructure

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4007 Control Engineering, Mechatronics And Robotics

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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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4606 Distributed Computing And Systems Software

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Networking And Information Technology R&d (nitrd)

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Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence

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4603 Computer Vision And Multimedia Computation

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4603 Computer Vision And Multimedia Computation

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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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Technology Laboratories: Facilitating Instruction for Cyberinfrastructure Infused Data Sciences

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

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Hyper-Reduction Techniques for Efficient Simulation of Large-Scale Engineering Systems

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ASAS-NANP Symposium: mathematical modeling in animal nutrition: harnessing real-time data and digital twins for precision livestock farming.

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Signal Whisperers: Enhancing Wireless Reception Using DRL-Guided Reflector Arrays

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Auditory Perception in Open-Source Driving Simulator CARLA

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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

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Guiding Wireless Signals with Arrays of Metallic Linear Fresnel Reflectors: A Low-cost, Frequency-versatile, and Practical Approach

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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

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A New Parallel Method for Binary Black Hole Simulations

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Performance improvement of file operations on overlayfs for containers

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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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Improving I/O Performance in Container with OverlayFS

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CaKernel - A parallel application programming framework for heterogenous computing architectures

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Dynamic Data-Driven Digital Twin Testbed for Enhanced First Responder Training and Communication

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Computational relativistic astrophysics with adaptive mesh refinement: Testbeds - art. no. 081301

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Automated individual animal identification and feeding bunk scoring: a computer vision approach for beef cattle at Calan gate feeding system

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Idealized Framework for Assisting Pharmacovigilance Reporting in an Ambulatory Primary Care and Chronic Disease Management Clinic

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

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Development and Demonstration of a Digital Twin-based Remote-Control Framework for Small-Scale Advanced Reactors

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

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A Digital Twin-Based Simulator for Small Modular and Microreactors

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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

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

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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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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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AutoFLUKA: A Large Language Model Based Framework for Automating Monte Carlo Simulations in FLUKA

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Smart Communities, Smart Responders -Artificial Intelligence for Internet of Things Competition: A Case Study in Organizing a Public Safety Innovation Challenge

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Guiding Wireless Signals with Arrays of Metallic Linear Fresnel Reflectors: A Low-cost, Frequency-versatile, and Practical Approach

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

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RADIANT-LLM: Retrieval-Augmented Domain Intelligent LLM Framework for Safe, Secure, and Safeguarded Design of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies

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

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

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

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

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LARGE SCALE PROBLEM SOLVING USING AUTOMATIC CODE GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTED VISUALIZATION

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

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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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CaKernel  A Parallel Application Programming Framework for Heterogenous Computing Architectures

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Computational Relativistic Astrophysics With Adaptive Mesh Refinement: Testbeds

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

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Runtime analysis tools for parallel scientific applications

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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Evaluation of Computer Vision to Analyze Beef Cattle Feeding Behavior

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

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Hierarchical Autoencoder-Based Lossy Compression for Large-Scale High-Resolution Scientific Data

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

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CaKernel  A parallel application programming framework for heterogenous computing architectures

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Leveraging A Large Language Model (LLM)-based Agent Framework for Enhanced Knowledge Retrieval in Radiation Protection and Health Physics

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Hierarchical Autoencoder-based Lossy Compression for Large-scale High-resolution Scientific Data

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

# publications[].publisher
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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Creating a shared public safety radio data

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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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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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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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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College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts; 3237 TAMU

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College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts

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Vafay Eslahi, Samira (2022-08). Convolutional Neural Network Optimization and Parallel Compressive Sensing Algorithms for Accelerated MRI Reconstruction. Doctoral Dissertation.