Wei Liu
PhD Student at Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolWei Liu is a PhD student in Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg with a decade of experience in NLP, spanning word embeddings, sequence labeling, summarization, LLM pre-training, coherence and discourse modeling. He has published at top conferences (NAACL 2019, ACL 2021, ACL 2023), contributed to industry-scale pre-training at Alibaba, and built a benchmark for cross-lingual RAG during an Amazon internship. Technically fluent in Python, C/C++, Java, PyTorch and TensorFlow, he balances research-grade experimentation with production engineering—once leading development of a Spring Boot information management system. One of his GitHub projects has attracted 300+ stars, reflecting practical impact beyond papers. Known for bridging rigorous academic research and applied systems work, he focuses on reproducible resources and datasets that support wider community use.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
English, Chinese, German
Github Skills (36)
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
nlp8
tensorflow8
java8
data-science8
visualization7
jax7
jupyter-notebook7
regl6
neural-network6
interactive6
declarative6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nlpAThits/scad-tool
Jun 2019 - Jan 2022
scad-tool
Contributions:84 commits, 4 PRs, 79 pushes in 2 years 7 months
python3scad
ottiram/MMAX2
Nov 2017 - Nov 2021
Official repo of the MMAX2 annotation tool
Contributions:1 release, 29 commits, 24 pushes in 4 years
nlpjavaannotationannotation-toolmmax2-annotation
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