Summary
Sizhe Liu is a Ph.D. student and research assistant at UNC Chapel Hill with nine years of software engineering and research experience across real-time systems, OS, automation, and machine learning systems. He has shipped production features at scale—including frontend and backend work for TikTok Shop—and built core ML infrastructure at WeRide.ai that converted thousands of models to TensorRT, enabled int8 quantization with 20–40% latency gains, and supported multi-team deployment workflows. Comfortable across C++, Python, Go, React, Kubernetes, and ML frameworks, Sizhe blends systems-level performance engineering with applied ML research. He also has hands-on experience in neuroimaging ML and large-scale ETL, demonstrating a knack for squeezing efficiency from data and inference pipelines. Known for cross-functional collaboration across time zones, he chose graduate research after industry success, signaling a deliberate shift toward advancing machine learning systems research.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Chengdu NO.7 High School 成都市第七中学
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of Technology
Chinese, English, German