Summary
Tianyang Liu is a Computer Science PhD candidate at UC San Diego specializing in building, training, and evaluating large language models, with six years of hands-on experience across industry research internships. He has practical ML and systems exposure from internships at NVIDIA and AWS, and academic depth from degrees at Wuhan University and UCSD plus multiple visits to Stanford. Tianyang blends research rigor with production-minded experimentation—optimizing model training and evaluation pipelines for real-world workloads. He brings cross-cultural academic experience and an engineering focus that spans from software engineering foundations to state-of-the-art LLM development. An understated strength is his proven ability to move between deep research questions and scalable implementation details, making him effective at translating novel ideas into reproducible systems.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Wuhan University
University of California, San Diego
Campus visits three times, Campus visits three times at Stanford University