1994年進(jìn)入西安交通大學(xué)并獲得學(xué)士和碩士學(xué)位，2007年在新加坡南洋理工大學(xué)獲得博士學(xué)位。2005年至2007年在南洋理工大學(xué)計算機(jī)工程學(xué)院任助理研究員，2007年至2010年被授予李光耀博士后研究員，2010年至2012年在南洋理工大學(xué)弗勞恩霍夫交互式數(shù)字媒體中心任研究員、項(xiàng)目負(fù)責(zé)人，2012年加入山東大學(xué)計算機(jī)學(xué)院任教。

主持并完成了李光耀博士后研究項(xiàng)目(LKY Post-doctoral Fellow Research Project)一項(xiàng)，參與新加坡科技研究局（A*STAR）和美國NVIDIA公司的科研項(xiàng)目各一項(xiàng)。

曾被授予李光耀博士后（Lee Kuan Yew Post-doctoral Fellowship）獎并兩次獲得德國Fraunhofer IGD的最佳論文一等獎。

出版物章節(jié)

1. H. Shi, W. Liu, B. Schmidt: CUDA-EC: CUDA Error Correction Method for High-Throughput Short-Read Sequencing Data, in Bioinformatics: High Performance Parallel Computer Architectures, Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2010.
2. B. Schmidt, C. Chen, W. Liu, W. Mitchell: PheGee@Home: A Grid-based Tool for Comparative Genomics, in Handbook of Research on Computational Grid Technologies for Life Sciences, Biomedicine and Healthcare, IGI Global, 2008.
3. B. Schmidt, CX. Chen, W. Liu: Hierarchical Grid Computing for High Performance Bioinformatics, in Grid Computing for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
期刊
1. H. Shi, B. Schmidt, W. Liu, and W. Müller-Wittig: Parallel Mutual Information Estimation for Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks on GPUs, BMC Research Notes, DOI:10.1186/1756-0500-4-189
2. W. Liu, B. Schmidt, and W. Mueller-Wittig: CUDA-BLASTP: Accelerating BLASTP on CUDA-enabled Graphics Hardware, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1678-1684, 2011 November. (Imapct factor: 2.246)
3. H. Shi, B. Schmidt, W. Liu, and W. Müller-Wittig: A Parallel Algorithm for Error Correction in High-Throughput Short-Read Data on CUDA-enabled Graphics Hardware, Journal of Computational Biology, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 603-615, 2010. (Impact Factor: 1.694)
4. Y. Liu, B. Schmidt, W. Liu, and D. Maskell: CUDA-MEME: Accelerating Motif Discovery in Biological Sequences Using CUDA-enabled Graphics Processing Units, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 31, No. 14, 2170 - 2177, 2010. (Impact Factor: 1.772)
5. W. Liu, B. Schmidt, G. Voss, and W. Müller-Wittig: Accelerating Molecular Dynamics Simulations using Graphics Processing Units with CUDA, Computer Physics Communications, vol. 179, pp. 634-641, 2008. (Impact Factor: 1.958)
6. A. Singh, C. Chen, W. Liu, W. Mitchell, and B. Schmidt: A Hybrid Computational Grid Architecture for Comparative Genomics, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 218-225, 2008. (Impact Factor: 1.694)
7. W. Liu, B. Schmidt, and W. Müller-Wittig: Performance Analysis of General-Purpose Computation on Commodity Graphics Hardware: A Case Study Using Bioinformatics, The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 209-221, 2007. (Impact Factor: 0.732)
8. W. Liu, B. Schmidt, G. Voss, and W. Müller-Wittig: Streaming Algorithms for Biological Sequence Alignment on GPUs, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 1270-1281, 2007. (Impact Factor: 1.733)
9. W. Liu, B. Schmidt, Parallel Pattern-based Systems for Computational Biology: A Case Study, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 750-763, August 2006. (Impact Factor: 1.733)
10. W. Liu, B., Schmidt, Mapping of Hierarchical Parallel Genetic Algorithms for Protein Folding onto Computational Grids, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, E89-D(2):589-596, February 2006. (Impact Factor: 0.396)
會議
1. W. Liu, B. Schmidt, Y. Liu, G. Voss, and W. Müller-Wittig: Mapping of BLASTP Algorithm onto GPU Clusters, the 17th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2011), Tainan, December 7-9, 2011.
2. H. Shi, B. Schmidt, W. Liu, and W. Müller-Wittig: Quality-Score Guided Error Correction for Short-Read Sequencing Data using CUDA, The International Conference on Computational Science 2010 (ICCS 2010), Amsterdam, Netherlands, Procedia Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1123-1132, 2010.
3. H. Shi, B. Schmidt, W. Liu, and W. Müller-Wittig: Accelerating Error Correction in High-Throughput Short-Read DNA Sequencing Data with CUDA, in Proc. 23th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2009).
4. C. Chen, B. Schmidt, W. Liu, and W. Müller-Wittig, Using Graphics Hardware to Accelerate Motif Finding in DNA Sequences, Third IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIBu201908), LNBI, Australia, 2008. (Acceptance Rate: 30%)
5. W. Liu, B. Schmidt, G. Voss, and W. Müller-Wittig: Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Commodity GPUs with CUDA, 14th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2007), LNCS 4873, pp. 185-196, Goa, India, December 18-21, 2007. (Acceptance Rate: 21%)
6. M. Low, W. Liu, and B. Schmidt: A Parallel BSP Algorithm for Irregular Dynamics Programming, 7th International Symposium on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies (APPT 2007), LNCS 4847, pp. 151-160, Guangzhou, China, 2007.
7. W. Liu, B. Schmidt, and W. Müller-Wittig: Performance Predictions for General-Purpose Computation on GPUs, International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2007), Xiu2019an, China, September 10-14, 2007. (Acceptance Rate: 27%)
8. J. Feng, S. Chakraborty, B. Schmidt, W. Liu, and U.D. Bordoloi: Fast Schedulability Analysis Using Commodity Graphics Hardware, 13th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2007), Daegu, Korea, 2007. (Acceptance Rate: 30%)
9. C. Chen, A. Singh, W. Liu, W. Müller-Wittig, W. Mitchell, and B. Schmidt, Phenotype Genotype Exploration on A Desktop GPU Grid, 3rd International Workshop on Grid Computing & Applications (GCA 2007), Singapore, 2007.
10. W. Liu, B. Schmidt, G. Voss, and W. Müller-Wittig: GPU-ClustalW: Using Graphics Hardware to Accelerate Multiple Sequence Alignment, 13th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2006), Bangalore, India, LNCS 4297, pp. 363-374, 2006. (Acceptance Rate: 16%)
11. W. Liu, B. Schmidt, G. Voss, and W. Müller-Wittig: Bio-Sequence Database Scanning on a GPU, in Proc. 20th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006), Rhode Island, Greece, 2006.
12. W. Liu, B. Schmidt, Mapping of Hierarchical Parallel Genetic Algorithms for Protein Folding onto Computational Grids, IEEE Tencon 2005, Melbourne, Australia, 2005.
13. W. Liu, B. Schmidt, A Case Study on Pattern-based Systems for High Performance Computational Biology, in Proc. 19th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), Denver, CO, 2005. (Acceptance Rate: 31%)
14. W. Liu, B. Schmidt: A Tunable Coarse-Grained Parallel Algorithm for Irregular Dynamic Programming Applications, 11th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2004), Bangalore, India, Springer, LNCS, 2004. (Acceptance Rate: 22%)
15. W. Liu, B. Schmidt, A Generic Parallel Pattern-based System for Bioinformatics, Euro-Par 2004, Pisa, Italy, LNCS, Springer, 2004. (Acceptance Rate: 35%)
16. W. Liu, B. Schmidt, Parallel Design Pattern for Computational Biology and Scientific Computing, IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2003), Hong Kong, 2003. (Acceptance Rate: 29%)