Haofu Liao
Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHaofu Liao is a Principal Applied Scientist with 11 years of experience and a strong record of shipping production ML systems at AWS, where he’s led cross-functional teams and launched enterprise-facing products like Quick Automate, Bedrock Data Automation, and Textract AnalyzeExpense. He specializes in vision-language and multimodal models, large-scale training, synthetic data generation, and model optimization, translating research into scalable systems that drive measurable business impact. A prolific researcher with 10+ first/co-first–author papers at ICCV, EMNLP, and CVPR and over 2,300 citations (h-index 25), he combines academic rigor from a Ph.D. in Computer Science with practical engineering leadership. Based in Los Angeles, he’s known for turning cutting-edge ideas into deployable pipelines and for mentoring teams to bridge research prototypes and production-grade ML.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Communication Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of RochesterMaster of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (39)
python10
machine-learning10
numpy10
deep-learning10
gpu10
neural-network10
acceleration9
autograd9
tensorflow9
tensor9
efficientnet9
resnet9
gpu-acceleration9
mobilenet8
optimizer8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
liaohaofu/adn
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:27 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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