Xiao Liu is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia with 11 years of experience specializing in NLP, large language models, and reasoning. He holds a PhD in Natural Language Processing from Beijing Institute of Technology, where his dissertation earned institutional and CIPS honors, and he augmented his doctoral work with visiting research stints at NTU and SUTD. At MSRA he progressed from Researcher to Senior Researcher while building research-oriented tools and mentoring interns—he’s actively recruiting LLM interns and shares work via his personal homepage. Xiao blends rigorous academic training with applied research at a leading industrial lab, focusing on bridging theoretical advances in reasoning with practical LLM systems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Ph.D. student Natural Language Processing, Visiting Ph.D. student Natural Language Processing at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Language Processing at Beijing Institute of Technology
Visiting Ph.D. Student Natural Language Processing, Visiting Ph.D. Student Natural Language Processing at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
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