Mickel Liu
Visiting Researcher at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMickel Liu is a PhD computer scientist and visiting researcher at Meta FAIR specializing in training and aligning large language models, with seven years of experience spanning RLHF, supervised fine-tuning, and multi-agent research. He bridges academic rigor and industry impact—currently a UW PhD student and research assistant while contributing to open-source releases like Baichuan-7B/13B during an intern role at Baichuan Intelligent Technology. His background in chemical engineering and early work in process control and data analytics gives him a systems-minded approach to model safety and deployment. Mickel has collaborated with AI2 and BIGAI on multi-agent and reinforcement learning projects, and is known among peers as an “academic nomad” based in Seattle who moves fluidly between research labs and product-focused ML teams.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of WashingtonSecondary Education, International Baccalaureate, Secondary Education, International Baccalaureate at Canadian International School of BeijingMaster of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence at Peking UniversityBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Chemical Engineering at University of Toronto
English, Chinese
Github Skills (98)
proximal-policy-optimization10
benchmark10
parallel10
python10
deep-learning10
image-generation10
ray10
optimization10
api10
ai10
hyperparameter-tuning10
raylib10
reinforcement-learning10
data-versioning10
data-generation10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mickelliu/OpenRLHF
Apr 2024 - Jun 2024
An Easy-to-use, Scalable and High-performance RLHF Framework (Support 70B+ full tuning & LoRA & Mixtral & KTO)
Contributions:19 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
PKU-Alignment/beavertails
Jun 2023 - Jun 2024
BeaverTails is a collection of datasets designed to facilitate research on safety alignment in large language models (LLMs).
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year
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