Liang Yao
Associate Professor
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
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Top SchoolLiang Yao is an associate professor and AI researcher based in Shenzhen with nine years of experience spanning academia and industry, currently leading research in NLP, data mining, AI safety, and medical informatics at Sun Yat-sen University. Previously a senior researcher at Tencent, he worked on large-scale Graph Neural Networks and Large Language Models and applied deep learning techniques to medical text during a postdoc at Northwestern. His work has garnered over 5,000 Google Scholar citations, an H-index of 22, and recognition among the World's Top 2% Scientists and AI 2000 honorees. Liang bridges theoretical advances and practical systems, translating graph and language models into real-world biomedical insights and scalable AI components. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Zhejiang University and is noted for combining rigorous evaluation with attention to AI safety in applied settings.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Sichuan UniversityPhd, Computer Science, Phd, Computer Science at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (35)
editor9
microsoft9
electron9
visual-studio-code9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
vscode9
plugin8
visual-studio8
webapp8
component-based8
react6
preact5
monitors5
health5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
6peiweb/YuFou
Apr 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:87 commits, 2 PRs, 70 pushes in 4 years 8 months
webapp
6peiweb/6peiweb.github.io
Nov 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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