Summary
Wei Liu is an AI researcher and engineering leader with a decade of experience building large-scale machine learning and computer vision systems, currently founding Video Rebirth to advance video-generation and world-model technology while serving as an adjunct professor in New York. He led Tencent’s efforts to incubate foundational multimodal models (HunYuan) from concept to production and has a strong industrial-research pedigree at IBM and Didi. A Columbia PhD, his work on graph-based hashing, semisupervised learning and robust retrieval has appeared in top venues (NIPS, CVPR, ICML) with multiple oral/spotlight presentations, reflecting both theoretical depth and practical impact. Comfortable moving between academia and product, he combines hands-on R&D leadership with teaching experience and a persistent “keep learning” mindset evident from his GitHub bio.
10 years of coding experience