James Liu
Co-Founder And CTO at Serif.ai
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Liu is a founder-engineer and CTO with 12 years of experience building AI-first products from research prototypes to acquisitions. Based in Palo Alto, he co-founded include.ai (acquired by Retool) and now leads technical strategy at Serif.ai, bringing deep expertise in applied deep learning, robotics, and product-focused ML from research roles at Stanford Vision Lab and Stanford AI Lab. He moves fluidly between hands-on engineering and startup leadership, having shipped AI and activation features at Retool and led perception research at Uber ATG. Trained with an MS and BS in AI/Computer Science from Stanford, he combines academic rigor with a knack for turning cutting-edge research into commercial systems that scale. An under-the-radar strength is his repeated track record of founding teams that bridge computer vision and productization, reflecting a practical techno-optimism to amplify human potential.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Choate Rosemary HallMaster of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (29)
reinforcement-learning10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
lora6
q-learning6
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
gymnasium5
llama4
llm4
fine-tuning4
mistral3
gemma2
standardized1
manipulation1
simulation1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
extension-dev/include_notebook_docs
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
extension-dev/sales-nav-api
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:12 commits in 16 days
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