Tingkai Liu
Member Of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTingkai Liu is an LLM and NeuroAI researcher with eight years of experience building pre/post-training and multimodal foundation models, now a Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI in New York. He has moved fluidly between industry and academia—leading research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and developing production-facing LLM and agent systems at ByteDance—grounded in a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from Columbia. His work spans dynamic transformer distillation, uncertainty estimation, and the geometry of neural representations, blending theoretical rigor with engineering that ships. Tingkai’s background in electrical engineering and hands-on course and internship experience give him an uncommon systems-level view of model design and deployment. Colleagues describe him as a NeuroAI practitioner who translates neuroscience insights into scalable model architectures and training strategies.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Magna Cum Laude, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.01/4.33, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Magna Cum Laude, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.01/4.33 at Rice UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.05, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.05 at Columbia University in the City of New YorkHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Hwa Chong Institution
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (131)
cudnn10
jupyter-widget10
graph-drawing10
edges10
jupyter10
jupyterlab-extension10
cuda10
nodes10
jupyterlab10
javascript9
pycuda9
cublas9
cupy9
cad9
numba9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
FlyBrainLab/NeuroMynerva
Feb 2019 - Jun 2022
NeuroMynerva integrates the Fruit Fly Brain Observatory (FFBO) Project with JupyterLab, providing CAD capabilities and a neuroscientific data exploration platform.
Contributions:4 releases, 346 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 4 months
braindata-explorationcadjupyterlab-extensionobservatory
fruitflybrain/neu3d
Jun 2018 - May 2022
A javascript 3D visualization engine for neural data in SWC format
Contributions:2 reviews, 156 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years
3d-visualizationwebgljavascriptthreejsvisualization-engine
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