Liyan Xu
Research Scientist at Tencent
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolLiyan Xu is a research scientist and PhD candidate in Computer Science at Emory University with roughly a decade of experience building and researching NLP systems for document understanding. His work spans coreference resolution, information extraction, summarization, and reading comprehension, with notable strengths in cross-lingual transfer, weak supervision, and domain adaptation. He has published applied and foundational work with industry collaborations—internships at Amazon (Product Graph and Alexa AI) and research partnerships at NEC Labs—and now applies LLMs to document understanding at Tencent. Prior roles as a software engineer at Expedia and CenturyLink give him practical production experience alongside his academic track record. He’s contributed to clinically-oriented NLP projects (kidney-transplant readmission and MRI tumor staging) and has a knack for translating research ideas into deployed systems. Based in Beijing, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on product and research delivery across industry and academia.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at East China Normal UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Emory University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (32)
coreference-resolution10
coreference9
nlp8
commoncrawl7
httpx7
api7
python7
csv7
corenlp6
server6
natural-language-processing6
css6
machine-learning6
tiktok6
json6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lxucs/go-game-easy
Apr 2019 - May 2019
A simplified version of Go game in Python, with AI agents built-in and GUI to play.
Contributions:34 commits, 4 PRs, 42 pushes in 9 days
go-gamepythongamein-gamegame-in-python
lxucs/lxucs.github.io
Dec 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 87 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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