Tianci Liu
Research Assistant at Purdue University Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolTianci Liu is a PhD candidate and research assistant at Purdue ECE with eight years of research experience building reliable, efficient, and trustworthy AI/ML systems. His work advances knowledge-grounded LLMs, focusing on precise, generalizable knowledge updates and efficient fine-tuning methods that scale to practical deployment. Tianci has a strong track record of high-impact publications (ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, EMNLP) and industry research internships at Amazon and Microsoft where he translated editing and efficiency techniques into production-oriented solutions. He also explores fairness, integrity, and safety in ML, contributing novel methods for debiasing and robust representation learning. Based in West Lafayette, he bridges rigorous academic research with hands-on engineering, evidenced by both foundational theory and applied tools for LLM alignment. An interesting through-line in his work is combining lightweight intervention methods with principled evaluation to make large-model updates both practical and trustworthy.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Purdue University College of EngineeringMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Xiamen University
Github Skills (18)
generative-adversarial-network9
density-estimation9
natural-language-processing8
watermark8
artificial-intelligence8
chatgpt7
large-language-models7
gpt7
llama5
pytorch5
python-interface3
inverse2
python2
stan2
pystan2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lliutianc/lliutianc.github.io
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:109 pushes in 2 years 4 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
lliutianc/mpvae
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
A pytorch implementation of mpvae.
Contributions:611 pushes in 10 months
pytorchpytorch-implementation
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