Summary
Andy Liu is a research scientist specializing in deep learning for speech and multimodal foundation models, currently advancing multimodal LLMs and speech-to-speech AI at ByteDance. He holds a Ph.D. in EECS from National Taiwan University, where his dissertation won NTU's Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award and he collaborated with leading speech researchers. With ten years in industry and over five years focused on SSL and speech processing research, his work has amassed 2,200+ citations and an h-index of 13, and includes the widely used TERA paper and co-founding the S3PRL toolkit (2,100+ GitHub stars). Andy blends academic rigor with product-facing experience at companies like Amazon and ASUS, and he has a track record of turning self-supervised models into practical tools for downstream tasks.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at National Taiwan University
English, Chinese, python, c++